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

Sunday, November 02, 2014

Houston LGBT Positive Impact Day Meets Hate With Love

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While our right wing opponents brought their all star team of national hatemongers to Steve Riggle's Grace KKKomumnity Church (and t...

Kumu Hina Documentary

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This is the documentary movie I'm looking forward to seeing that tells the remarkable story of Hina Wong-Kalu, a transgender native Ha...

Fall Back On Sunday, Spring Forward Politically On Tuesday

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Since this is the weekend before our critical midterm election, this was such an apropos reminder of turning your clocks back one hour at ...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

Damn, Another Transpinay Murdered

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Jennifer Laude isn't even in her grave a week and here I am discussing the death of another trans pinay. Mary Joy Añonuevo, 55, 55 ye...

Halloween 1962 NYC Ball Raid

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I was talking about the drag balls that happened in various locales around the country on Halloween in an earlier post .   Those balls occ...

Upcoming 2014 Facing Race Conference In Dallas

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Only found our about this conference recently, but since it is happening in the Lone Star State up I-45 from me, I've been invited to ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Happy Trans National Holiday 2014!

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In the trans* community, Halloween is sometimes known by us by another name. It's called the Trans National Holiday. We call it that...

Shut Up Fool Awards-Halloween 2014 Edition

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Happy Halloween! In addition to today being the Trans National Holiday , today is also the last day of early voting in Texas.   You have u...

And Now There Are Ten-RIP Ashley Sherman

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We have lost another transsister to anti-trans violence. Location this time was Indianapolis, IN, in the Tudor Park Condominiums on the...

Last Day To Early Vote in TX

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Today is the last day to early vote in Texas, and it's apropos that it is falling on Halloween in this cycle. Because I am definitely ...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Loving Myself Unapologetically

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Guest Post by L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith Marc Lamont Hill asked me once whether or not I ever felt like the burden of being trans was...

Worst Time For Black People In US History? Conservakneegrow Please!

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One of the things that I absolutely hate about kneegrow (they don't deserve to be called Black) conservafools is that they will say and ...

TransGriot 2014 NFL Picks Week 9

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We are now past the halfway mark of the 2014 NFL regular season and our prognostication contest.  While once again I had a respectable wee...

Houston LGBT Positive Impact Day On Sunday

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On Sunday night, the opposition to HERO will be meeting in a rally at Grace KKKomunity Church that as usual will be full of anti-LGBT bil...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Upcoming Texas Non-Discrimination Ordinances Discussion

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Too bad I will miss this event on November 7 sponsored by the Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston , South Texas College of Law ...

Go Vote!

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I'm going to be haunting you until November 4 to take your soul to the polls for this critical midterm election. In Texas, early vot...

Team USA Is Going To Canada!

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The USA women's team on Sunday finished handling their CONCACAF business in PPL Park and captured their seventh title with a 6-0 rout ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Koko's Album 'Who's That Lady?' Drops November 18

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I've talked about Koko Jones,  my seriously talented musical sis from time to time on the blog and had the pleasure of doing one of my T...

AISD Meeting To Add Gender ID To Nondiscrimination Policy

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The Houston, Dallas and Forth Worth ISD's have done this already, and now Austin will have an opportunity to do this at their board meet...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Panel Discussion At HCC Northline

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You know the old saying about when life hands you lemons, make lemonade?  And I'd consider a lemon situation what I was dealing with pri...
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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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