TransGriot

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

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Let My People Pee!

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One of the things that comes up with depressing regularity in the now six years that I have been chronicling events that affect the trans co...

Ohio Handling Its Early Voting Electoral Business

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Umm Republifools, this is probably your worst nightmare unfolding with lines of pissed off African-Americans and other voters waiting f...

Voting While Trans

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One of the highlights of the 2000 presidential election cycle for me despite the jacked up way it turned out was it was the first time I g...
Monday, October 01, 2012

It's TBLG History Month!

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As a child and godchild of historians, I have always believed it is important to know your history. It not only fortifies your self-este...

Time Running Out To Register For 2012 Election

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If you're not registered to vote in this upcoming critical national election, better get busy because the deadlines to do so in many a...

Happy Twentywhatever Birthday Isis!

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It's October 1st and I wasn't going to let today slide by without a TransGriot Happy Birthday shout-out to my twentysomething litt...

This 2012 Election Is STILL About The Supreme Court

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As much as the pundits will try to make this election about the economy, I submit this election is about a far more important factor the...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

2012 Texans Watch- 4-0!

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In the 30 plus year the Team Formerly Known as the Houston Oilers played inside Loop 610 they never started a season better than 2-0.  The...

WFPL-FM 'Strange Fruit' Show Premieres

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I'd heard this show was in the works, but WFPL-FM 89.3, Louisville's public access radio station is kicking off a brand new podcas...

2012 UH Cougar Watch-Great Time For First Win

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My fave college football team got their 2012 college football season off to a rocky start with a 30-13 upset loss to Texas State at Rober...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Same Conservacrap, Different Democratic President

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If you think that President Obama being called a 'communist', 'socialist' or whatever epithet du jour by 'white' w...

Secretly Serving-The Few The Proud, The Trans

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While the LGB community was celebrating the first anniversary of DADT repeal, transgender people in the US military are still serving in sec...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Samuel L. Jackson Wake The F&@k Up Ad

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I've been trying to say it on this blog in a more diplomatic fashion to you misguided people who claim there is no difference between ...

Shut Up Fool Awards-Alexander John Goodrum Memorial Edition

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Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of pioneering trans man Alexander John Goodrum .   It's hard to believe that ten years has...

Gloria Steinem-Transphobe

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You long time TransGriot readers know I'm not a feminist and I cringe when I hear Black women even say the term because of its history...

Alexander Goodrum-Gone Ten Years

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I'd been in Louisville just over a year on this date when Dawn told me the shocking news that Alexander John Goodrum was dead a few da...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

2nd Annual Black Transmen,Inc Conference Coming Soon

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I was pleased to hear about the first one when it occurred earlier this year in Dallas with Rev. Louis Mitchell doing an inspiring keynot...

2012 TransGriot NFL Picks-Week 4

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I compiled a 9-7 record in Week 3 in the wake of the 8-8 Week 2 one, but it was enough to allow me to take a four game lead over Mr. Watt...

Scandal Season 2 Starts Tonight!

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Y'all know how much I love Kerry Washington, and I'm looking forward to the start of the second season of the Shonda Rhimes produc...

Want Fries With That Transphobic Hate Crime?

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Can we trans women have a day in which somebody is not fracking with either us or the people who give a damn about us?   Guess that's ...
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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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