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

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Last White House Transgender Community Event Today

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The last transgender themed White House event for a while will take place in a few hours The White House Transgender Community Briefing is...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Texas 2016 TDOR Events

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The Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial events are taking place across the Lone Star State during this  Trans Awareness Week leading u...

Angelica Ross Honored With 2016 HRC Visibility Award

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Congratulations to my amazing sis Angelica Ross, who was given a well deserved 2016 HRC Visibility Award at the Human Rights Campaign'...

FLOTUS Haters Pay For Their Racist Bigotry With Their Jobs

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The election of Trump has sent a signal to bigoted and racist white people that they can be as offensive as they wanna be.   But with th...

India Willoughby To Join UK's 'Loose Women'

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Just in time for Trans Awareness Week comes the news that the UK's popular Loose Women program will have a new member of the panel in...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Sen Chuck Schumer: We're In This Together LGBT Community

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TransGriot Note:  This was a op-ed published today in the Advocate penned bu Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) who some Capitol Hill watchers ...

Be Known For Your Flawless FDA Anti-Smoking Ad

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One of the things I noticed when I first started hanging out in the Montrose gay clubs in June 1980 that was in stark comparison to the st...

Moni's Going To Tucson For TDOR

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My air travel for 2016 isn't done yet.   I'll be returning to Tucson for the first time since 2012 later this week The Southern...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Groundbreaking PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Dies

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As if this week couldn't get any worse, now comes the sad news that groundbreaking journalist, longtime host of PBS' Washington We...

Transgender Awareness Week 2016

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Today is the start of Transgender Awareness Week, which is a series of events being held in various locales in the runup to the Transgende...

We Are All At Risk

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TransGriot Note: This op-ed is courtesy of Philadelphia based trans advocate Sharron Cooks, who was our lone African-American trans feminine...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Congrats Sheriff-Elect Zena Stephens!

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One of the other positive things that happened on Election Night was that the first ever African-American female sheriff in Texas was ele...

What We has Here Is A Fauxgressive Failure To Communicate 5 (Part II)

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This is the continuation of a post about a conversation thread that broke out on my Facebook page that encapsulates why many of us in the...
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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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