TransGriot

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

Friday, August 26, 2016

#Black Queer Magic Empowerment Brunch Tomorrow

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Tomorrow afternoon the Young Black Voices group will present their Empowerment Brunch that serves to honor Houston area Black LGBTQ commun...

Hillary Clinton Calls Out Trump For 'Steady Stream Of Bigotry'

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Hillary Clinton put Donald Trump on blast during a speech in Reno, Nevada on race relations that rebutted Trump's ludicrous charge tha...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Trump's Disrespectful 'Black Outreach' DOA In Black America

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Faced with polls showing he is losing white female voters he needs to even have a prayer of competing against Sec. Hillary Clinton, the ne...

UH Will Name Renovated Hofheinz Pavilion After Tillman Fertitta

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Hofheinz Pavilion has been the on campus home for the University of Houston Cougar basketball team since it opened in 1970.   While grow...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

LGBT Health Summit At U of L Med School Coming Soon!

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One of the issues that continues to plague our LGBTQ community across the country is finding culturally competent health care in our vario...

Moni's Heading To Cali For The September 8 GLAAD Gala San Francisco

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The Air Marshal is headed back to the Bay Area for the first time since I was there in Oakland in 2013 for the first TransH4CK. Sorry East...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

2016 Presidential Debate Schedule

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After Labor Day passes, we will be in the critical homestretch phase of the 2016 presidential campaign.  Many folks who have been either c...

Historic US Senate Election In California

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When California voters go to the polls on November 8, they will have to choose a successor for the retiring senator Barbara Boxer (D).  Th...
Monday, August 22, 2016

PFLAG Statement on Unjust Texas vs. United States Case

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PFLAG National Executive Director Jody M. Huckaby has issued the following statemen t concerning the unjust injunction issued by GW Bush ...

Unjust Injunction Granted In Texas vs United States Trans Rights Case

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The transphobic oppressors won a round in federal district court as US District Judge Reed O'Connor, a known anti-LGBT rights oppresso...

Happy 2016-17 School Year To My Trans And LGB Siblings

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HISD and other school districts in the Houston area started classes today, and I'm thinking about this in the wake of my niece Kaciely...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Racist White Supremacists Show Up At Houston NAACP HQ

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While many of us were at church or chilling out today, the local area white supremacists, feeling froggy because their man Donald Trump is...

2016 Olympics Watch- Darn, It's Over

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The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are coming to a close today, and far from Donald Trump's loud and wrong assertion that the USA doesn't ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch-Semenya Wins Gold!

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Well haters, Caster Semenya handled her Olympic business and won the 800m gold that eluded her in London.   Semenya won her race in a ...

Playing A Transsexual In A Bad Movie Doesn't Make You An Expert On Our Sporting Lives

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One of the things I and many trans persons get sick of is people who don't live our trans lives making loud and wrong commentary about...

2016 Olympic Watch- Going For The Sixpeat!

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The five time defending Olympic champion USA women's basketball team has been marching toward this hopefully golden moment ever since ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch- Caster Semenya To 800m Final

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I was happy to see Caster Semenya of South Africa after all the drama she has been through since bursting into the world's consciousne...

2016 Olympics Watch- Watching Legends Win

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I've been watching the Olympics since the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, and have been fortunate to be around to see some legendary...
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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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