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

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Islamophobia Being Deployed Again In Another Pearland Political Race

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Did the conservative white males in Pearland not get the message that Islamophobia is not okay at any time, especially when deployed dur...

Headed To Austin To Fight Back Against SB 4

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Well, looks like I'm going to be making another trip to Austin in a  few hours. I was asked to be a speaker at this Memorial Day event...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

IBM Statement Opposing Texas Discriminatory Laws

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With the potential of an anti-trans special session increasing, Texas based companies that opposed SB 6 and HB 2899 are starting to speak ...

Dan Patrick's Trying To Force A Special Session To Oppress TX Trans People

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The 85th Texas Legislative session is mercifully drawing to its sine die day close, but  Lt. Governor Dan 'Potty Polizei' Patrick ...
Friday, May 26, 2017

BTWI Statement Concerning The Faulkner Murder

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 26, 2017 Contact  Monica Roberts BTWI Media Chair Carmarion D. Anderson  BTWI Founding National Director 855-2...

Shut Up Fool Awards- Memorial Day 2017 Weekend Edition

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We are rapidly heading toward the halfway point of 2017 and this has already been a trying year for many of us, especially in Texas. Mem...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

40th Anniversary of the Original 'Star Wars' Film Debut

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40 years ago in a galaxy called the Milky Way on a planet named Earth, a film debuted on this date that has become a iconic classic, spark...

Black Trans History- Jackie Shane

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'I never realized that I'd mean something to people all these years later' -Jackie Shane   I've talked about in these...

President Obama and Chancellor Merkel Speak At Kirchentag

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President Obama journeyed to Berlin at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leader of the free world, for the Kirchentag...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Texas Trans Kids, The Fight Ain't Over

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At this point we all know what happened on May 21, 2017  in what will forever known in Texas history as Discrimination Sunday.   The Te...

Number 11- Rest In Power And Peace, Sherrell Faulkner

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One of the things I was deeply concerned about when the North Carolina GOP started messing with trans people and passed the unjust HB 2 la...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Mike Floyd's PISD Board Trustee Inauguration Today

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18 year old Mike Floyd is having the Senior Week to beat all Senior Weeks.   While his fellow Glenda Dawson High School classmates are l...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Texas GOP Messes With Texas Trans Kids

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Pissed off because their big unjust anti-trans discriminatory bills in SB 6 and HB 2899 were bottled up and died in committee,  the Texas ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Assigned Male Cartoonist Attacked By Online Haters

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I've loved the online webcomic Assigned Male ever since I stumbled across it during one of my web searching forays for interesting th...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Rest In Power, Kristen Capps

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I awoke this morning to hear the shocking news that one of ur Houston TBLGQIA community sheroes in Kristen Capps has passed away. My con...

Dear Transphobic People

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It's past time to call these fools and trans haters out on a regular basis,  and there are enough of them out there for me to skewer o...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Happy IDAHOT 2017!

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Today also marks the 12th annual celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia or the IDAHOT as it'...
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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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