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

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Is It Something I Said?-More Musing About B.Scott

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Been an interesting 48 hours since I wrote the B.Scott post that included the tweet I made hours after Scott's 'I'm trans' ...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Shut Up Fool Awards-Congressional Vacation Edition

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It's August, and that means Congress has bailed from Washington and is headed back to their states and districts to talk to their cons...

Whitney's 50th Birthday-You're Still Missed

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Still hard to believe it's been over a year since we lost her , and we got another sad reminded of the person and iconic musician we l...

Hate Speech Plus Hate Thoughts Equals Hate Murder

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The right wing and their conservasheeple are always shrieking about the First Amendment since the conservafools like to use it as a shield t...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

DC's Jones Birth Certificate Bill Signed Into Law

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The JaParker Deoni Jones Birth Certificate Equality Amendment Act of 2013, that seeks to modernize DC's laws and make it easier for tran...

Audrey Mbugua Landmark Kenyan Case Update

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I wrote back in June about the groundbreaking lawsuit that my Kenyan homegirl Audrey Mbugua filed against the Kenyan National Examinations ...

Is B.Scott Genuinely Embracing The Trans Umbrella?

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Well, well, well.  As many of you are aware of  BET got itself in some seriously hot water when they hired gender bender B. Scott to be the ...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

San Antonio City Council Considering Adding Gender Identity To Non-Discrimination Ordinance

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San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas and is considering adding gender identity and sexual orientation to their anti-discriminatio...

The 2020 Olympic Finalist Cities

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With the 2016 Summer Olympics set to take place in Brazil, the world is about to find out thirty days from now which mayor of what interna...

Cece McDonald Talks About Trayvon And The Justice System

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Definitely signal boosting this one.  Cece McDonald writes a post in which she discusses the Trayvon Martin case and the injustice system ...

August 7, 1995

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An auto accident happened on this date 18 years ago at the corner of 50th and C Streets in southeast Washington DC that would eventually ge...

TransGriot Ten Questions Interview-Koko Jones Xtravaganza

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Past time for another one of my TransGriot Ten Questions interviews. One of the benefits of me founding the Transsistahs-Transbrothas grou...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

What's LGBTI Mean?

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I've been writing about TBLG issues for over seven years here at TransGriot and looking at them in many cases from a chococentric pers...

George Duke Passes Away

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Was stunned to hear the news via the TJMS that another fave musician I grew up with passed away August 5, a year after his wife Corine die...

Pulling Up Saggin' Pants Won't Fix What Ails Our Community

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Like much of the Black blogosphere I'm majorly pissed off at Don Lemon for co-signing with a longtime race-baiting bigoted detractor of ...
Monday, August 05, 2013

2013 Texans Watch-Texans Preseason Schedule

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My fave NFL ballers have been in training camp preparing for a Super Bowl or Bust season and to add a third consecutive AFC South Division c...

Trans Assimilation

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TransGriot readers, you have got to see this video of one of my trans brothers basically tellin' it like it T-I-S is about his masculine...

Laverne Cox On MHP

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Laverne Cox's highly anticipated debut appearance in #nerdland happened yesterday morning as she along with several castmates from Ora...

Trans POC Speakers Need To Be Seen, Heard And Paid At TBLG Events

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Had an enjoyable two hour conversation with Tona Brown late Sunday afternoon.   It eventually turned to discussing the appalling and frustra...

Trans Being Left Behind Rights Wise In Vietnam?

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Since I posted the story of Cindy Thai Tai and her evolution, it's been interesting from these shores to watch the Vietnamese trans c...
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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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