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

Monday, April 15, 2013

Jackie Robinson Breaking The Baseball Color Line Anniversary

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Some historians consider the second most important day in the history of the African-American Civil Rights movement to be the April 15, 19...

Join The NBJC On Give OUT Day!

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One of the things I talked about in my BTMI keynote speech was that organizations such as BTMI/BTWI, TPOCC and the NBJC not only need you sh...

Dr. Z-Uses Of Black Trans Male Anger

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One of the highlights of my recent trip to Dallas for the Black Trans Men, Inc. conference (and I'm so looking forward to making that ...

Moni's Heading Downtown On Wednesday

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To UH-Downtown that is. I get to spend a little time on the UHD campus April 17 as part of a panel discussion after a viewing of the...

Draconian Anti-Prostitution Law Proposed In The ATL

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'The City Too Busy to Hate' as the ATL likes to call itself sometimes forgets that motto when it comes to trans women. I never for...

Phil Donahue Trans Shows

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Phil Donahue's talk show based out of Chicago started in 1970 and was the gold standard in that genre for years.  Phil had the number on...

Bullying and Where Are the Parents?

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Guest post from Renee of Womanist Musings I have come to hate the term where are the parents because it ignores that parents can d...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Tamala Savage Show Interview (Part 1)

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Last night I taped an interview on the Tamala Savage show that got rather interesting. It originally was supposed to be a single episode....

Jazz Huff Post Live Interview

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It's one of my fave award winning trans teens in the community again doing what she does best, telling her story and being positive ab...

This Week In The 2013 Texas Lege-Weeks Ending April 5 & 12

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Time for all you Texas TransGriot readers and interested political junkies to get the scoop on what's happening in our GOP controlled ...

TransGriot Nuke A Troll 29-You Were Saying?

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Another day, another person I need to drop 50 megatons of knowledge on This time it's Johan Baumeister, who seemed to have a problem w...

Battlestar Galactica UN Panel Discussion

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December will mark the 10th anniversary of the broadcast of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica two part miniseries on Sci-Fi that led to t...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

TransGriot Nuke A Troll 28-Stop Projecting

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Been a while since the USS Monica left home port to sail the cyberseas in search of trolls to properly irradiate.   We have our latest acq...

Thousands Call On Smith College To End Trans Applicant Discrimination

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GLAAD, students, alumni voice support of trans-inclusive admissions policy New York, April 11, 2013  - GLAAD, the nation's lesb...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Autostraddle Salutes The Trans 100 List Women

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The Trans 100 List is already getting the desired results of changing the conversation around trans people inside and outside our commun...
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ELIXHER Showing Their Trans Sisters Some Love

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The Trans 100 List is definitely doing its job of facilitating positive conversations inside and outside the trans community in terms of ...

Shut Up Fool Awards- Dr. King Jailed In Birmingham Anniversary Edition

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April 12 is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Good Friday arrest of the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. while talking part in The Birmingham ...

METRORail Passes 100 Million Boardings Mark

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I went downtown Tuesday to run some errands that required me to ride the METRORail to do so.  I was pleased to find out that my rail t...

Still Striving To Be A Quality Black Woman

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When I say 'quality Black woman', I wanted to be the type of woman that even if you knew or discovered after meting me I was a ...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Let My People Participate In Sports Without Drama

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One of the other issues that been blowing up over the last few years and especially in the women's sports ranks is trans people partic...
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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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