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Monday, September 22, 2014

Texas Fall College Democrats Convention At UH This Weekend

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Since I'm right down the street from the UH campus (for now)  and the price is right (FREE), will probably go get into reporter mode a...

Texas Governor's Debate

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For those of y'all who don't live in the Lone Star State, the first debate between Texas state Senator Wendy Davis and Attorney Ge...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Shut Up Fool Awards-Scotland's Staying Put Edition

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While we were sleeping last night, across The Pond Scotland was counting votes for a referendum that if it had passed, resulted in Scotland...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

TransGriot 2014 NFL Picks-Week 3

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After getting off to a great 11-5 start in Week 1, the upset bug and a few close games that didn't go my way ravaged my Week 2 selecti...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

TTNS Accepting Hosting Proposals For 2015 Event

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The sixth annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit is history, and the event for the first time was hosted outside the Houston ar...
Monday, September 15, 2014

2014 FIBA World Cup Watch-Back To Back FIBA Champions!

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Team USA started this basketball business trip at the end of August with a few goals in mind.  They wanted to become only the third nation ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

NBJC's 5th Annual OUT on the Hill Rapidly Appoaching

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The September 24-27 dates for the 5th Annual OUT on the Hill Black LGBT leadership summit are rapidly approaching, and there's still ti...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Fallon Fox Beats Brents!

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There's an old saying in the Black community that goes "'Don't let your mouth write a check your body can't cash.&quo...
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Sade's Story

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I posted a while ago about efforts of the trans community in Guyana to overturn the British colonial era anti-crossdressing laws that are ...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Shut Up Fool Awards- Fallon's Fighting Edition

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Our fave WMMA fighter Fallon Fox will be headed to Springfield, IL to take on Tamikka Brents as a co-main event bout in the Capital City Ca...

You Can Vote Out Stupid

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Nope, you can't fix stupid, especially when they are willfully ignorant and resist any information that points to them as being wrong. ...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

TransGriot 2014 NFL Picks-Week 2

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"I want to get off to a good start and lay the foundation.  This week and the next four weeks of the 2014 NFL season will reveal which...

Janet And Laverne On 2014 The Root 100 List!

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Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler became the first ever transperson named to The Root 100 in 2013 .   So when this year's list of 100 achiev...

9/11 Terror Attacks 13th Anniversary

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Today is the 13th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks that targeted the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon i...

What's Missing In This Greg Abbott Press Conference On Women's Health?

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Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott decided to have a press conference at St. Joseph's Women's Medical Center her...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Racist Georgia State Senator Wants To Keep Blacks From Voting

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I've said more than a few times that the most dangerous bigot is one that has the power to write legislation.  I have also called the Re...

Message To The Brothers

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TransGriot Note:  This deserves a signal boost. It was written by Julian Long in response to the renewed drama surrounding Ray Rice.   It ha...

2014 Williams Watch-18!

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While my fave tennis playing siblings went down in the US Open doubles quarterfinals 6-7 (5-7), 4-6 to the Russian duo of Ekaterina Makaro...

2014 FIBA World Cup Watch-Rolling To The Semis

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When I last checked in with Team USA in the 2014 FIBA World Cup Tournament in Spain they were just clinching the top spot in Group C pool ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Fallon Fights Brents This Saturday

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Our fave WMMA warrior will step into the cage in Springfield, IL this Saturday for her Capital City Cage Wars co-main event battle with Ta...
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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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