TransGriot

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

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Perv Watch- HERO Hater Named In Lawsuit

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One of the patterns that keeps emerging as I do these TransGriot Perv Watch posts is that they are predominately white, male, Republican a...

Power Rising Summit Happening In The ATL February 22-25

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During a Congressional Black Caucus female members retreat held after the 2016 election, DC pastor Leah Daughtry, who had chaired the 2016...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Cecile Richards Is Right : White Women MUST Do Better

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I loved Ann Richards when she was my governor, and it seems as though Cecile Richards is cut from the same straight talking cloth her mom ...

Another Week, Another Bigot Becky

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One of the conversations my mother and I were having a few nights ago was about finding the silver linings in this Trump misadminstration....
Monday, January 22, 2018

Laverne's Historic Cosmo Cover

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Just in time for Black History Month, Laverne Cox continues to blaze trails and make me and other Black trans peeps proud of her. Her la...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

White Women: See You After The March?

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This is a commentary about yesterday's as a friend called them 'Becky Marches' because of the lack of diversity in them or era...

2017-18 NFL Playoffs - Championship Sunday

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Upsets played havoc with my Divisional Round picks to the point where the only game I got right was the Tennessee- New England one to go 3...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

50th Anniversary of the 'Game Of The Century'

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Would have been nice if on this January 20 date the University of Houston and UCLA would have played at NRG Stadium on the 50th anniversar...

Meet Our Newest Trans TV Character, Dr Casey Parker

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While we have seen the number of trans feminine characters increase on our nation's television and movie screens in the last few years...

April Ryan Calls Out Trump Racism

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Today is the one year anniversary of Dear Orange Misleader's inauguration as POTUS that I thankfully missed because I was in a meeting...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Not Going To The Houston Women's March

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Tomorrow should have been a day in which women across the Houston metro area gathered to march from the Buffalo Bayou Waterworks Building ...

Shut Up Fool Awards- One Year Under A Fool Edition

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Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of the shameful moment in American history that we replaced the first Black president of the Uni...

Nominated Again For A GLAAD Media Best Blog Award!

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Yay me! Been nominated for the third time for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Blog category. This time my fellow nominees are ...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Sen. Harris Calls Out DHS Secretary Nielsen

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'I am deeply concerned when we are-- just having celebrated the birth of of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke about the effect of raci...

Meet Ghanian Trans Woman Angela Coleman

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One of the things that was also a catalyst towards me founding TransGriot 12 years ago was wondering where was the information and stories...

Trump Trying To Push Medical Transphobia

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One of the things that I and every Black trans person is painfully aware of i s the story of Tyra Hunter.   On August 7, 1995 she was in...
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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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