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

Friday, October 27, 2017

Shut Up Fool Awards- Happy Halloween Weekend 2017 Edition

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It's Halloween weekend!   Even though it doesn't happen until Tuesday, there will be a lot of peeps celebrating it all weekend by ...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

TransGriot 2017 NFL Picks -Week 8

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After my first sub 500 week ince 2015, I definitely did not want to repeat that in Week 7 (or for the rest of the season). and rebounded ...

Happy Milestone Birthday, Hillary Clinton

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Had one of my posts from last year pop up to remind me once again how badly this country was screwed when the Orange Moron got elected T...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

FRC Is Deploying The Kneegrow Sellouts Against You What's Your Response TBLGQ Community?

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Myself and other Black TBLGQ people have been warning people in the white TBLGQ ranks for years that if you didn't start actually hiri...

Happy 75th Birthday Miss Major! You're Still F*****g Here!

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Y'all know I have much love and respect for my trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and pick up the phone to call and check in on her...

TX Legislative Heroes Speaker Joe Straus, Rep Byron Cook Not Running For Re-Election

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One of the major reasons that the transphobic Hate Bill 6/3 didn't become law was in large part because of the efforts of Texas House ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Brazilian Trans Community Embraces Hit Soap Opera 'Edge Of Desire'

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Here in the US, we not only get to see ourselves represented on screen, we are at the point that we have trans actors playing the trans ro...

Sen. Jeff Flake's US Senate Floor Speech

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TransGriot Note: I'm not a fan of Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) because far too often he has been on the wrong side of human rights and other...
Monday, October 23, 2017

You Are Beautiful, Black Trans Women

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'I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman.  I have lived, dressed, acted just what I am, a woman.' -Lucy Hick...

Burger King Anti-Bullying Commerical

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I was kid who was targeted by bullies in elementary until I kicked one of the in the family jewels in 3rd grade, and then it stopped.  So ...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Ines Rau Becomes First Trans Playmate

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Caroline Cossey appeared on Playboy's pages after she was outed back in 1991 and before she was public about her trans status in 1981....

Astros Are American League Champions!

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I was one of the longtime Astros fans who was not happy when the team was forced to move to the American League starting with the 2013 sea...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Hot Topic Talk Show

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Next Tuesday October 24 I'll be on this talk show with Flex Jonez to talk about whatever we can fit in subject wise in that allotted t...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Shut Up Fool Awards- Happy Birthday Sen. Kamala Harris Edition

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Today is the 53rd birthday of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)  I have much love and  respect for her (even if the Berners don't) because she...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

TransGriot 2017 NFL Picks- Week 7

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We're almost at the halfway point of the 2017 NFL season and the only thing that is certain about this season is that it has been hard...

Spirit Day 2017

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Today is Spirit Day, the day created by Canadian teen Brittany McMillian in 2010 as a high school student in conjunction with GLAAD as a r...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

2018 NFL Draft Will Be In Dallas

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See Texas conservafools?   When you don't pass hatemongering legislation like SB 6/3 you get nice things as a result.  One of those ...

Black Trans Advocacy Dallas HQ Building Sold

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As we know in Black Trans World, it's never a easy peasy road for us to just simply live our lives.  We have times when the road is as...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

No Always Means No

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In the wake of all the conversation being generated about the #MeToo hashtag that gets people who feel comfortable doing so to talk about ...
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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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