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Monday, August 12, 2013

NBJC Statetment On Bayard Rustin

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2013 Contact: Michael Brewer Email: mbrewer@nbjc.org Cell:...

What's Trans* H4CK?

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One of the increasingly popular things happening is what's called a hackathon.  It's a community event in which programmers, devel...

Open Letter To San Antonio City Councilmember Ivy Taylor

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Dear Councilmember Taylor, I'm writing this open letter to you because I understand at the moment you are one of four San Antonio counc...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

The Draconian ATL Banishment Ordinance-Still Pushing The Pig Of A Law

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Cheryl Courtney-Evans' latest update from her A Bitch For Justice blog about the ongoing efforts of Atlanta's 'Queen of Mean'...

Faith-Based Bigots Still Trying (And Failing) To Come Up With An Anti-Trans Doctrine

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Since they are losing the marriage equality war, the faith based bigot are now trying to pivot and focus their time an efforts on attacking ...

Help Our San Antonio Trans Brothers And Sisters Pass A Trans Human Rights Non Discrimination Ordinance

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TransGriot readers, need your help with a critical Lone Star State human rights mission.  I wrote about the upcoming vote around Septembe...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

2013 Texans Watch-Victory Over The Vikings

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The 2013 NFL preseason got off to a successful start for my favorite football team despite ten starters watching it from the Mall of America...

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...
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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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