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

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Happy Martian New Year!

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If you were sitting on the planet Mars, you'd be celebrating a brand new year this week. The Red Planet has a similar axial tile to or...

Fayetteville, AR Passes New Civil Rights Protection Law

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Was wondering if in the wake of the exposure of the Duggar hypocrisy, that Fayetteville, AR would revisit the marrow repeal of the previous ...

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Team USA Watch-Escaping The 'Group Of Death'

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Last night Team USA played their final group match in Vancouver against Nigeria with much on the  line.  A Team USA win over the Super F...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Colombia Allows Gender Marker Changes Without Surgery

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Identity documents that accurately reflect our expressed gender identities are an important issue for trans people around the world. The n...

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Team USA Watch-Next Up Nigeria

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The final group play match for now FIFA ranked number four Team USA is taking place in Vancouver against Nigeria with much at stake for the ...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Silicone Pumper Padge Windslowe Sentenced

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In the latest update on the Padge Windslowe pumping case, she was found back in March guilty of third degree murder for the February 2011 d...

RuPaul Says He Wouldn't Have Dropped T-Word Slur From Show

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Seems like RuPaul still hasn't learned anything from all the drama that was unleashed last year when his RuPaul's Drag Race show w...

Another Day, Another Amazing Laverne Cox Cover

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Hey, have I told y;all how much i love my sis Laverne Cox and proud of her ongoing success?  Well, y'all need to read this blog more o...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Media Peeps, The Trans Community Has A Flag- Please Use It!

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Today is Flag Day, which celebrates the day the American flag was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. I've writte...

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Team USA Watch-Great Start In Winnipeg

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The 2015 World Cup has completed its first week and Team USA is off to a great start in Group D play after getting positive results in their...

Boston LGBTQ Activists Of Color Protest Holds Up Pride Parade

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Been talking about the fact that far too often, the LGBTQ community in its public face and in the folks that get paychecks to be 'profes...

Why Y'all Tripping About This Crucifixion Actor, Brazil?

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Brazil is a nation that has some interesting contrasts and contradictions when it comes to its trans citizens. It has a medical system tha...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

El Salvador Trans Activist Murdered

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As I like to remind you peeps on a regular basis about, trans rights are an international human rights issue. I also need to point out tha...

Don't Go There With Dolezal, Transphobes!

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The Rachel Dolezal kerfluffle has started another national conversation on race with all its complicated layers   It incorporates appropriat...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Shut Up Fool Awards-Women's World Cup Edition

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The FIFA Women's World Cup kicked off the expanded 24 team field with group stage matches at several sites across Canada.  Team USA ha...

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup USA Watch-Next Up Sweden

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Team USA got their redemption campaign off to a great start with a 3-1 over Australia on June 8 thanks to two goals from Megan Rapinoe. It...

What's Isis Doing?

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The last time I wrote anything on the blog about my sis Isis besides her birthday shoutout posts, I was discussing the quality time I spent ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

TERF's Have Zero Say In Defining My Black Trans Life

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I got to see the transphobic piece of TERF trash written by Elinor Burkett for the New York Times (which I refuse to link to) and have held...

Dallas Silicone Injection Death Ruled Homicide

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Wykesha Reid was found dead inside a Dallas beauty salon in the 3800 Block of East Side Ave.on February 19 after visiting it for an app...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Happy 45th Birthday Ruby Corado!

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It's time for another TransGriot birthday shoutout, and today is the 45th birthday of the amazing executive director of Casa Ruby, the f...
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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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