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A proud unapologetic Black trans woman speaking truth to power and discussing the world around her since 2006

Monday, July 23, 2012

Early Voting For Texas Primary Runoff Elections Begins Today

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Lone Star State voters, early voting for the primary runoff elections begins today and runs through Friday.  If you don't get it done ...

HBCU's Better Recognize Black TBLG Students Exist

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One of the issues we discussed during the just concluded Texas Transgender Non-Discrimination Summit was the lack of LGBT centers on Texas c...
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Lt. Gov. Carroll: How Dare You Denigrate Me and My Beautiful Black Lesbian and Bi Sisters?

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TransGriot Note: I had my say about Florida Lt. Gov  Jennifer Carroll's jacked up comments about my Black lesbian and bi sisters, an...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Moni's Aurora Shooting Rant

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While I was preparing to get my learn on at the 2012 TTNS, some fool decided he'd use the lax gun laws to buy some weapons, multiple r...
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Transgender Studies Quarterly Call For Submissions

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TransGriot Note: When I had dinner with Dr. Stryker during my University of Arizona speaking event back in February we briefly talked abou...
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Happy Birthday, George!

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The George I'm giving a TransGriot birthday shoutout to is probably looking for the Mothership to land instead of a birthday cake.    ...
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2012 Team USA Has More Female Olympians Than Men

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It's fitting that in this 40th anniversary year for the g roundbreaking Title IX law , for the first time ever the United States will...

You Are A Jerk

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Been a while since I've done one of my infamous song rewrites, and it's been past time for RuPaul Andre Charles to get whacked by ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

2012 TTNS-Day Two Recap

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It's Saturday, and once again I got up at 6 AM in order to get dressed and head down I-45 south with Professor Baggett to take part in...
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Patti Shaw Suing DC Police and US Marshal's Service

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I talked about what happened to Washington DC transwoman Patti Shaw back in May 2010 and promised to keep you TransGriot readers updated ...
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Back To TTNS For Day Two

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I'm back on the picturesque UH-CL campus as you read this for the 4th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit taking place ...

Black Butterfly

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I talked about the significance and the symbolism of the butterfly to the transgender community in a previous post. As I compiled it I ...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

2012 TTNS- Day One Recap

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Ever since I returned home to the Lone Star State, I've made certain that one of the activism events I attend is the Texas Transgender N...

Shut Up Fool Awards-2012 TTNS Edition

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As I mentioned in my earlier post, I'm with my Houston and Texas rainbow crew and our allies getting my learn on at the UH-Clear Lake ...

4th Annual TTNS Starting Today

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At this moment I'm on the beautiful UH-Clear Lake campus getting my learn on and covering the 4th annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimi...

Why The Butterfly To Represent Trans People?

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As you've seen on these electronic pages, you've seen the trans flag, the trans symbol and the trans symbol with a butterfly flyin...

Semenya To Carry South African Flag During Olympic Opening Ceremony

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When the 2012 Summer Olympic Games kick off on July 27, one of the parts of the ceremony I look forward to is the Parade of Nations and wh...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Trans Pride Event In Chicago Next Week

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TGIF (Trans, Gender Non-Conforming Intersex Freedom) , the first ever trans pride event in the Midwest according to its founders will tak...

Transgender People Are Patriots,Too

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TransGriot Note:  I used to write a column (called TransGriot BTW) for a monthly Louisville based GLBT paper called The Letter .  I just d...

POTUS Predicts Texas Will Soon Be A Battleground State

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Somebody must be reading TransGriot at the White House, because I've been saying this for years that sooner or later Texas would bec...
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Monica Roberts
Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award winning blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate. She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color. Among her many honors are the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award, the Robert Coles Call of Service Award. the Barbara Jordan Breaking Barriers Award, and the 2020 Susan J Hyde Award for Longevity In The Movement
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