One Woman Performance By MilDRED At UH Tonight

TransGriot Note:  Pleasant surprise to discover that MilDRED is living in Houston now.  Always wanted to meet her and finally have the opportunity to do so tonight.   MilDRED Photo by Rita G

The University of Houston Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in collaboration with the UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, UH Womens Resource Center and UH LGBT Resource Center present:

I AM THE ONE I ALWAYS WANTED TO MARRY: A One-Woman Performance by MilDRED Gerestant. (http://www.dredlove.com/)

This thought-provoking performance questions the naturalized binaries of gender and sexuality, while highlighting...the performativity of these categories. Using poetry, music, comedy, and movement, MilDRED expresses the way in which discovering her male persona, DRED, has refashioned the gendered notions of her sexual and spiritual self.

Haitian-American and internationally-known MilDRED is an actress, lecturer, and workshop presenter best known for her mystical one-woman shows.

LOCATION: University of Houston, Dudley Recital Hall, Room 132
ADMISSION: Free

Endorsed by: DiverseWorks, Houston Gendermyn, UH Department of Anthropology, UH Global.

For information contact Sima Shakhsari: sshakhsari@uh.edu

UH Lady Cougars Open 2011 NCAA Tournament Play

I'm sitting in front of the television watching the NCAA women's tournament action and in addition to checking out how my brackets are holding up, I'm focused on my alma mater.

The Lady Cougars are in the tournament for the first time since 2005 and take on West Virginia in a Dallas Region matchup in Waco.    The winner gets the daunting task of probably facing Brittany Griner and the number one seeded Baylor Lady Bears in the second round on their Ferrell Center home court.

No matter what happens, the UH women ballers have had an excellent season.   They went unbeaten in taking the C-USA regular season title and finished the regular season ranked number 24 in the nation.

The run is starting to pay dividends recruiting wise since the Houston area is a hotbed of basketball talent in the Lone Star state on both the men's and women's side.

Good luck and eat 'em up Lady Cougars!

UH Women Ballers Achieve Perfection

It was Senior Day at Hofheinz Pavilion and the Number 24 ranked Houston Cougars women ballers were on a mission to not only extend their school record winning streak, but become only the second women's team in C-USA history to go through the season unbeaten.

Tulane made them work for it, but in keeping with the theme of the day five UH seniors scored a combined 82 points to lead the Cougars to a thrilling 90-84 overtime win to finish C-USA conference play with a 16-0 record and notch their 16th straight win. 

The now 25-4 Cougars we led by Brittney Scott's game high 28 points with Courtney Taylor chipping in 24. 

They have probably clinched a NCAA women's tournament bid for the first time since the 2003-04 season no matter what happens in the C-USA tournament, but if they keep winning they can definitely improve their seeding.


To the unbeaten UH victors go the spoils of a first round bye in the upcoming C-USA women's tournament in El Paso that starts March 9.  They'll take on the winner of the UTEP-SMU game

Eat 'em up!

UH Women Ballers Fight For Comeback Win Against Rice

One of the things about playing your rival in any sport at any level of competition is that you throw the records of the two teams out.   If one of the rival teams is trying to accomplish something like make the playoffs, win a conference title or go unbeaten, they will play their hardest just to beat you. 

They want the smirking satisfaction of rubbing it in your face months and years later and reminding you that they were the team that denied you whatever goal you wanted to accomplish.

One of the goals the University of Houston women's team wanted to accomplish in addition to the already secured conference regular season championship was an undefeated C-USA season.  

The fact that we were playing our big rivals was one of the things that went through my mind as I awaited the tipoff of this game againt the Rice Owls at Tudor Fieldhouse. 

It was a team the Cougars spanked at Hofheinz 71-51 back on February 10 but the Owls let the Cougars know they were bringing the Senior Day pain with a 9-0 opening run   For much of the afternoon that UH goal of a perfect conference mark was in jeopardy as the number 25 ranked Cougars faced a 19 point deficit at one point during the first half and were in a 41-27 hole at halftime .           

Thanks to a 24 point effort from reigning C-USA Player of the Year Courtney Taylor and 18 from Porsche Landry the Owls and their alums won't get the satisfaction of rubbing that in our faces.


The Cougars started clawing their way back into the game with an initial 17-7 run that whittled the Owl lead down to 48-44 at the 14:38 mark.   After another Rice run boosted their shrinking lead a run of seven straight points from Courtney Taylor cut the deficit to just 63-60 with 7:17 left in the game.

Porsche Landry's turnaround jumper gave the Cougars their first lead at 69-68 with 1:50 remaining and the Cougars allowed one Owls basket over the final 3:38 of the game to head back to Cullen Boulevard with the  hard fought 74-70 win.

Eat 'em up!


The win extended the school record UH winning streak to 15 games, boosted their record to 24-4 and set them up with the opportunity to become the second C-USA women's team to go unbeaten in the regular season when they face off against Tulane on Saturday night.

UH Lady Cougars Ballers Keep Winning

In what is turning out to be the best season ever for the University of Houston women's basketball program, they rode the sizzling shooting of Brittney Scott to beat Marshall 72-54 for their school record 14th straight win.

Scott scorched the Thundering Herd for 24 points with 6 for 10 shooting from behind the three point arc as the now 25th ranked Cougars improved their record to 23-4 on the season and are now only two wins away from an unbeaten romp through Conference USA.

They clinched the conference championship with a 77-61 win over UTEP last week and have two games left on their schedule standing between them and becoming the second C-USA women's team to go unbeaten. 

The Cougar lady ballers battle our crosstown rivals at Rice and have a Tuesday night regular season finale at Hofheinz with Tulane before they head to El Paso to play in the C-USA tournament.

Looks like I'll have a reason to watch the Selection Monday coverage on ESPN when they announce the teams that will be going to the NCAA womens tournament.

Congrats UH Cougar Women Ballers 2010-11 C-USA Champs!

Had to give the University of Houston's women's basketball team a little TransGriot love today.   

They are having a fantastic season under their first year coach Todd Buchanan and after a 77-61 win over UTEP yesterday, clinched the regular season C-USA conference championship for the first time since the 2003-04 season..

That was the Cougars 13th straight win and the now 22-4 squad is only three wins away from compiling their first unbeaten C-USA conference run in their program history and only the second one in C-USA history since UTEP ran the C-USA table in 2007-08.

They have also tied their record for the longest winning streak in program history as well. .

Buchanan was an assistant coach at UH from 2000-2005 before taking the head job at crosstown Houston Baptist University.   His words about yesterday's C-USA clinching victory?  "Awesome," as he said to Houston Chronicle reporter Sam Khan. "That’s why I came back. I came back for a lot of reasons, but that’s one of the biggest reasons.”  

There's a whiteboard in the Cougars locker room that had three goals on it.   

*win conference
*go “16-0” in conference
*win conference tournament

They can check one of those goals off their whiteboard.    But there's two more I'd like to see them add.  

*Fill Hofheinz Pavilion consistently for women's basketball games. 

*Deep run in NCAA tournament