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

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Gloria Steinem's Op-Ed Apology-Dyssonance Speaks

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I expressed my thoughts concerning the groundbreaking Gloria Steinem Advocate op-ed apology for her past transphobic scribblings and silenc...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Happy Birthday, Jazz!

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October 7 is already a busy day for me birthday card wise because I have two cousins who were born on this date.  So is six time Grammy awar...

Fayetteville State University To Become Third HBCU With LGBT Center

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There are 105 HBCU's in the United States (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and only two of them have LGBT centers on their...

MAJOR! Obliterates Fundraising Goal!

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Congratulations go out to Annalise and StormMiguel who not only hit but exceeded their fundraising goal for getting the MAJOR! documenta...

Fallon Fox Interview On 'No Holds Barred' Radio

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Our fave WMMA #girllikeus Fallon Fox has her big CFA championship fight coming on Saturday night.  The unbeaten (3-0) 'Queen of Swor...

Uh Oh-The SCOTUS Is In Session

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When I last had a chance to vent about the US Supreme Court, I was highly pissed along with many other African-Americans about the 5-4 conse...

All Hail King Ray!

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The 2013-14 school year is poised to be a great one for trans students.   First we had the first ever out trans homecoming queen in Califo...

2014 Olympic Flame Lit And Headed To Sochi

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As an lifelong Olympics junkie, the news from Greece that the Olympic flame has been lit usually gets me excited and fired up for and breath...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Bigotry Costs You Big Money

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One of the lessons that corporations should know but seem to forget at times until it whacks them on their bottom line is that bigotry can c...

Pastor Lawrence Richardson-My Transgendered Faith

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I met Pastor Lawrence T. Richardson earlier this year at the BTMI conference in Dallas and had some long, thoughtful discussions with him du...

40th Anniversary Of The Yom Kippur War

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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war between a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

Republican Governors Behaving Badly

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Why am I not surprised when I hear about governors behaving badly, they predominately carry the GOP label? Whether it's New Jersey gov...

Gloria Steinem-Trans Ally?

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Last September I wrote a post calling out feminist icon Gloria Steinem for her transphobic attitudes that were expressed in her writings of...

Kat Blacque-Why Transgender Women Don't Help Each Other

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Latest video from Kat Blacque discussing an issue that I had a problem with in the 80's and 90's. There are just some of our tran...

Strange Fruit-Janet Mock Interview

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I've talked about the WFPL-FM radio show that Niece and Nephew (Dr Kaila Story and Jaison Gardner to y'all) do in Louisville entitl...
Friday, October 04, 2013

Sue And Newark Star-Ledger Still Being Obstinate About Not Correcting Her Misgendering Article

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Been over a week now and Sue Epstein, the reporter stenographer at the Newark Star-Ledger still hasn't corrected the misgendering sto...

Shut Up Fool Awards-Shuttin' Down The Government Edition

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The Tea Klux Klan got their wish and forced the Republican Party to go along with their foolish plan to shut down the federal government i...

MAJOR! Documentary Kickstarter Campaign In Final Days

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I talked about the Kickstarter campaign that is happening to fund the documentary MAJOR! by filmmakers Annalise Ophelian and StormMiguel ...

Amen, Chaplain Black!

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The US Senate ever since 1789 has started their session with a prayer before they commence with their regular legislative partisan bickering...

BTAC 2014 Call For Proposals

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I had such a wonderful time at the second annual BTMI 2013 conference in addition to delivering a keynote speech for it .  Now that I know...
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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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