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

Saturday, December 17, 2016

UH Coogs Take On San Diego State In The Las Vegas Bowl

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It's not the New Year's Six Bowl or the College Football Playoff game that we Cougar fans were hoping to get to at the beginning o...
Friday, December 16, 2016

January 2017 National Geographic Cover Makes Trans History

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One of the cool things about being trans is that we can and are making history at times. This latest bit of trans history involves the i...

Shut Up Fool Awards- 9 Days Until Christmas Edition

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We are getting inexorably closer to Christmas Day, and it's shaping up to be a bittersweet holiday season for a lot of us who didn'...

Whose Fault Is It Trump Got Elected?

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I've always loved Toni D'orsay's no punches pulled commentary on just about any subject, and miss her Dyssonance blog. Well, s...

Welcome To The International Trans Fam, Gauri!

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"I want to tell the world it's not always easy to be who you are, but you must stay true to yourself' -Gauri Arora As I li...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Pink Crayons

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This is an amazing spoken word poem courtesy of the Asia Project. The poet is talking about his transgender sister living her truth in a w...

TransGriot 2016 NFL Picks - Week 15

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Getting closer to the end of the 2016 regular season and it was a great week for me.   The Texans beat the Indianapolis Colts.  The Cowb...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Thanks To Koncept Kit For My Blogiversary Gift

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When January 1 rolls around TransGriot will start its second decade of operation telling it like it T-I-S is in terms of being an unapolog...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Houston LGBT Legislative Forum Tomorrow

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I talked about this event earlier in the month , so this is your friendly TransGriot reminder that the Houston  LGBT Legislative Forum is...

Don't Hate, Emulate

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Last night I was in attendance at the 2016 F.A.C.E Awards because I was nominated in two categories that I didn't win.   Hey, it happe...
Monday, December 12, 2016

5th Annual F.A.C.E. Awards Tonight

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I get to pull out the nice clothes tonight as I head to the gayborhood and check out the 5th annual F.A.C.E. Awards.   Been nominated a fe...

Southern Comfort Conference Shuts Down

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I first encountered the Southern Comfort Conference when it was being held at a hotel in the Buckhead area in 1999, and returned a year la...

Microsoft's New Holiday Ad Featuring Jazz

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This is a Christmas commercial I can definitely get into. There have been a few Christmas commercials and ads featuring fictional TBLGQ ...
Friday, December 09, 2016

Human Rights Activist Viola Desmond To Become First Canadian Woman On Canadian Currency

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I've talked about on the blog beautician and businesswoman Viola Desmond, who nine years before Rosa Parks did so in the US, the then...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

TransGriot 2016 NFL Picks -Week 14

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Had a nice rebound with my Week 13  picks in which I went 13-2 to win the week and pad my lead once again in the season long prognostica...

2015 US Trans Survey Results Being Released Today

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The results from the largest transgender survey ever done are going to be released at noon CST today. In an event that will be livestrea...

Moni's Going On WMPG-FM Again

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At 1:30 PM EST I'll be doing a radio interview with Dal Maxwell st WMPG-FM  90.0  a public radio station that's based in  southern...

'Doubt' Premieres February 15

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Finally, something that's happening in 2017 that you'll actually look forward to. The CBS legal drama Doubt that will feature ou...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Another Busy H-town Moni Day

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As you're reading this I'm sitting down in a meeting with Texas state senator Sylvia Garcia and her staff at her East End district...

Sarah McBride Honored With Delaware Order Of The First State

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'The last six months have reinforced my belief that government can be a force for good and that reason and compassion will win the day...
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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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