TransGriot

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

Thursday, December 31, 2015

The 2015 Shut Up Fool Of The Year Is...

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Well, I know y'all want to get to the partying, so let's get to who got selected as this year's TransGriot Shut Up Fool Of The...

Top 5 Texas Trans Moments of 2015

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One of the things that irritates me about Top Five or Top Ten lists for trans issues is that far too often, they ignore stuff that doesn&#...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Stop Killing Us, Po-Po's

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In the wake of once again, another white district attorney failing to indict a white police officer in a death by po-po killing of a Blac...

Mayor Parker's Last Week

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Her haters may be cheering, but for those of us who have either worked in or voted for her in her multiple campaigns for city council, con...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

So When Does it Become 'Offensive' For A Trans Woman To Bare Her Chest?

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Back in 2011 I wrote about the case of Andrea Jones, who bared her chest to protest Tennessee's refusal to change the gender marker o...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Leelah Alcorn One Year Anniversary

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Today is the sad day one year ago that 17 year old Leelah Alcorn stepped in front of an 18 wheeler truck near the South Lebanon, OH exit ...

Susan L. Taylor Comments On Tracey Norman

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I'd talked about on these electronic pages the trailblazing modeling career of girl like us Tracey Africa Norman who was nondisclosed ...

Upcoming 'The New Black' Screening And Panel Discussion

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My first event of 2016 is going to be an interesting one.  It will be a January 14 screening of the Yoruba Richen documentary The New Bla...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Jazzmun Speaks About Transphobia

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One of the people I finally had the pleasure of meeting in 2015 was Jazzmun. You have seen this California native on television and the ...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Eyes On The 2016 White House Prize, People

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In a few days we'll officially be in the year 2016 and the vote casting stretch of the presidential election will start.  The Iowa cau...
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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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