TransGriot

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

Monday, November 05, 2012

Putting A Conservafool On Blast

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Yeah, had one feeling his oats yesterday and believing the conservahype that Mitt Romney will win tomorrow and stepped to me on my FB page...

2012 Texans Watch-Mario Who?

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The Houston Texans greeted their former number one overall pick in the 2006 NFL draft when he returned to Reliant Stadium with his Buffalo...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Houston's Other Football Team Plays Tonight

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My hometown has a second football team that is in the playoffs and going for a championship.  Instead of wearing battle red, liberty whi...

Fall Back 2012 Reminder

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Did you turn that clock back one hour at 2 AM?  If you didn't, you're going to be an hour early for a lot of events and appointmen...

What Obama Being President STILL Means To Me

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Note I didn't say 'potentially'. I have the confidence to say that he WILL be a great president. If we were going to have...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Yoda Comments On The Dark Side Of The Political Force

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“Fear is the path to the political dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to voting Republican and suffering.”...

Miss Transsexual Brazil 2012 Pageant

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Brazil has been a good news, bad news place for our transsisters living there.   While this emerging South American economic power nation ...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Shut Up Fool Awards-Fall Back 2012 Edition

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Early Sunday morning daylight savings time ends in the United States, so at 2 AM you get to turn those clocks back and get an extra hour o...

Why Is A So Called GLBT Election Exit Poll Excluding The 'T'?

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Since the 1990's a consortium of five networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Fox along with the Associated Press have contracted with the Ne...

It's November Sweeps Month-Here Comes The Trans Themed Programming

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The Nielsen Company conducts the national samples that determine the fate of television and cable programs, who gets the advertising dolla...

Last Day To Early Vote In Texas

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If you haven't done so yet, today is your last opportunity to early vote in the Lone Star State from 7 AM to 7 PM, so head over to you...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

2012 TransGriot NFL Picks-Week 9

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This week my fave NFL ballers come back from their bye week and welcome the Buffalo Bills and their former 2006 overall number one draft p...

Mia Nikasimo: Transgender Community As An African In The Diaspora

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One of the things I love to highlight is trans voices of the African Diaspora, and one of those voices from the Mother Continent speaking el...

It's Hell To Be Trans In Kuwait

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While we think we have it tough being trans in the United States, there are some parts of the world where just trying to live our trans li...

Political Football 2012

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Washington Redskins football is always a popular ticket inside I-495 and the Washington DC area, but every four years the last Redskins ho...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

VP Biden: Transgender Rights Are The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Times

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I've always liked Vice President Joe Biden for a number of reasons, but I have even more reason to love him according to a HuffPo repo...
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Happy Trans National Holiday 2012!

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I call Halloween the ' Trans National Holiday ' because its one of the times besides Mardi Gras when we could walk the streets as ...

Scary Proposition For African-Americans

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One of the things that sends shivers up my spine this Halloween is fast forwarding to November 6 and hearing the networks say, "We pr...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A Tale Of Two Responses To Hurricane Sandy

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If you needed any more evidence as to the vast chasm of difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney, all you needed to observe as p...

Republican Racism On Display

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The debates are over, and now this long 2012 presidential campaign marathon has evolved into a sprint to the November 6 finish line in eig...
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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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