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

Sunday, August 24, 2014

2014 US Little League World Series Champions!

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The Jackie Robinson West Little Leaguers from Chicago have been making history ever since their arrival in Williamsport for the 2014 edition...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Conservafool Racism False Equivalency

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Most of the time I love reading the iconic cartoon Peanuts and seeing the antics of Charlie Brown and friends.  But I'm not l...
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Houston Dash End Tough Inaugural Season

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We Houston women's soccer fans were thrilled to discover a few months ago that we'd been able thanks to the Houston Dynamo to get an...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Shut Up Fool Awards-Aww Mo'Ne's Gone Edition

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Was hoping I get to see the remarkable story of Mo'Ne Davis continue to play out in this year';s edition of the Little League World ...

Read Your AP Stylebook, JIm Kiertzner And WXYZ-TV

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When I took a trip up to Boston recently for the National Association of Black Journalists convention to discuss the coverage of Black trans...

History Repeating Itself In Chitown?

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TransGriot Note: We African-American transwomen painfully remember that our sis CeCe McDonald spent 41 months in a Minnesota prison unjustly...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Rest In Power, Kenishia Hubbard 1964-2014

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Was stunned to hear that one of our transsisters, Left Coast advocates and my fellow Texan Kenishia Hubbard suddenly passed away at age 50...

Malcolm X-The Ballot Or The Bullet Speech

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This April 4, 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X at Cleveland's Cory Methodist Church is ranked (number 7) as one of the 100 Greatest ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

HERO Updates, Notes And News- August 20

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Last night Team HERO took a moment to celebrate and recognize the team of folks who helped get the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance passed ba...

Smithsonian Adds Trans Items To Expanded LGBT History Collection

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Yesterday The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History added hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects to its col...

Domonique Newburn Case: One Year Later

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As Islan Nettles was lying in a New York hospital bed in a coma after the vicious transphobic attack on her, today was the day a year ago ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

2014 Honor 41 List Initial Videos

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The links to the 2014 Honor 41 List honoree videos are becoming available. .   So what's the Honor 41 list?  It was founded by Alberto...

Educating Us About Us Forum Sunday

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One of the things the HERO battle exposed in our Houston African-American SGL, trans and bi community was not only a need to do a better j...

Diamonds Are Mo'Ne's Best Friend

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Marilyn Monroe once sang diamonds are a girl's best friend.   But in 13 year old Mo'Ne Davis' case, it's a baseball diamond....
Monday, August 18, 2014

HERO Updates, Notes And News- August 18

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HERO 4-HERO haters 0 Despite the faith-based oppressors trying to spin this as a 'victory', the reality is they lost twice in cour...

Fallon Has A New Fight-With Wannabee 'Advocate' Tamikka Brents

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Our fave MMA warrior is now in training for her next fight with 24 year old Tamikka Brents Y'all know I have much love for Fallon Fox ...

Musing About These Austin Gender Variant Photos

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I've talked about the point more than a few times that Black gender variant people are an intertwined part of the African-American commu...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Islan Nettles-One Year Later

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21 year old Islan Nettles was just beginning to have some positive things happen in her life.   She had just started a new job.  She had rec...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Two Trans POC Involved Events This Weekend

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As I've stated more than a few times on this blog, intersectionality is an important value for trans people of color.   We are keenly ...

6th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit Recap

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To be honest, I'd like to take a road trip to San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin or even better one of our Texas HBCU campuses in T...
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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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