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

Sunday, January 06, 2013

2012 Texans Watch-On To Foxborough!

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The Texans over the month of December have not exactly shown us Houston fans they are the same squad that swaggered and dominated NFL co...
Saturday, January 05, 2013

2012 TransGriot NFL Picks-Wild Card Weekend

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The regular season prognostication contest between myself and Mr. Watts is over, and it came down to the last week and the last game of t...

Justice For January Rally Tonight

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I posted about January Marie Lapuz, one of the girls like us in the Vancouver area who was loved and respected in the community b...

TPOCC 2013 New Year's Message

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And we're off!!! Just weeks ago we stood with LGBT leaders ...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Shut Up Fool Awards-First Shut Up Fool Of 2013 Edition

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Happy New Year!  Hope you didn't celebrate too hard and you made New Year's resolutions you're going to at least try to make a...

Welcome Back Rep Alan Grayson!

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One of the other cool things about the opening of the 113th Congress yesterday is the return of Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) to the Democratic ...

Tom DeLay Sentenced To 3 Years In Jail

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You've probably read posts of mine about Texas politics in which I have mentioned the Delaymandering, the (illegal) midyear redistri...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Facing Race 2012 Panel-Race And Gender In The 21st Century

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Definitely wish I could have been a part of this panel discussion at the Facing race Conference that was held in Baltimore.  The panel tackl...

113th Congress Starts Today

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The 113th Congress starts today with the Democrats gaining ground thanks to the 2012 election.  There will be 200 Democrats and 233 Republ...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Stand Your Ground Law Needs To Die, Not Our Kids

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Jet magazine in its nearly six decades of publication has had many prominent African-Americans in the worlds of business, politics, sport...
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May Be A While Before We See A Trans Miss Universe

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While trans women aged 18-27 now have the opportunity starting this year in the Miss Universe pageant system to enter the pageant and beco...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

African And Transgender

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One of the things I want to do a better job of this year on TransGriot is get the stories of continental trans Africans out there. Stumble...

150th Anniversary Of The Emancipation Proclamation

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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated ...

Cheryl Courtney-Evans Needs Some Help

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I've posted some of my Atlanta based trans elder Cheryl Courtney-Evans' writing from her abitchforjustice blog here and had...

Happy 7th Anniversary TransGriot Blog!

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January 1 also happens to be the anniversary date for TransGriot.  At midnight EST on January 1, 2006 the first post went up on this blog ...

Happy New Year 2013!

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Happy New Year TransGriot readers! Well, we made it through that leap year and a contentious presidential election cycle to see January ...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

2012 Shut Up Fool Of The Year

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It's New Year's Day for you folks on the other side of the International Date Line, but on my side of it we're 12 hours away i...

2012 International Trans Year In Review

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Just as the African-American trans community  made some great strides in 2012 , there was remarkable  progress made for trans human right...
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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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