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Shakina Nayfack
Apr 2, 2025
CRUISING at YALL Comedy Fest
Shakina Nayfack
Apr 2, 2025
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Shakina Nayfack
Apr 2, 2025
Quantum Leap
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 15, 2024
Quantum Leap
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 15, 2024

I wrote, produced, directed, and guest starred on NBC’s Quantum Leap as an Executive Story Editor. Check out clips from my episodes here.

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Shakina Nayfack
Feb 15, 2024
Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 1, 2023
Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 1, 2023

Shakina’s Drama League Award Winning play is available on Audible now, produced in partnership with Audible Theatre and The Williamstown Theater Festival.

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Shakina Nayfack
Feb 1, 2023
Smart Girls Advocate for Transgender Rights
Shakina Nayfack
Mar 29, 2017
Smart Girls Advocate for Transgender Rights
Shakina Nayfack
Mar 29, 2017

Some people say feminism is about women being treated equally to men. Actually, that’s really just a great side effect of feminism. What feminism is really about is dismantling the systems of power that create and maintain gender inequality in the first place...

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Shakina Nayfack
Mar 29, 2017
Diary of a Trans Actress on the Road...in North Carolina
Shakina Nayfack
Jun 8, 2016
Diary of a Trans Actress on the Road...in North Carolina
Shakina Nayfack
Jun 8, 2016

Theatre-maker and activist, Shakina Nayfack, takes her solo show on tour in one of the most dangerous places to be trans. Her goal: education and acceptance through art.

Originally published on Playbill.com as part of their 2016 Pride Coverage under the title "Diary of a Trans Actress on the Road...in North Carolina" 

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Shakina Nayfack
Jun 8, 2016
Manifest Pussy
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 18, 2016
Manifest Pussy
Shakina Nayfack
Feb 18, 2016

Not many people get a second shot at virginity. It’s a particular blessing of the post-op transgender experience that I didn’t expect would weigh so heavily upon me.

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Shakina Nayfack
Feb 18, 2016
Letter to the Revolution
Shakina Nayfack
Jan 18, 2016
Letter to the Revolution
Shakina Nayfack
Jan 18, 2016
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Shakina Nayfack
Jan 18, 2016
MY FIRST REAL DATE AS A WOMAN
Shakina Nayfack
Jan 14, 2016
MY FIRST REAL DATE AS A WOMAN
Shakina Nayfack
Jan 14, 2016

In my last BrokeAssStuart blog I wrote about the lack of mediatized representations of transgender people as complex, loving, sexual, and emotional beings. I also wrote that all the guys I had met online were interested in sex but not interested in taking me on an actual date. In what follows, I’m happy to prove myself wrong on both counts.

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Shakina Nayfack
Jan 14, 2016
Post-Op Update: 6 months and counting
Shakina Nayfack
Apr 5, 2015
Post-Op Update: 6 months and counting
Shakina Nayfack
Apr 5, 2015

It’s been a while since I’ve shared anything about my process. A couple months ago I hit a wall...

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Apr 5, 2015
I am a little boat
Shakina Nayfack
Mar 31, 2015
I am a little boat
Shakina Nayfack
Mar 31, 2015

I am a little boat
floating farther and farther away
from shore...

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Shakina Nayfack
Mar 31, 2015
  • April 2025
    • Apr 2, 2025 CRUISING at YALL Comedy Fest Apr 2, 2025
  • February 2024
    • Feb 15, 2024 Quantum Leap Feb 15, 2024
  • February 2023
    • Feb 1, 2023 Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club Feb 1, 2023
  • March 2017
    • Mar 29, 2017 Smart Girls Advocate for Transgender Rights Mar 29, 2017
  • June 2016
    • Jun 8, 2016 Diary of a Trans Actress on the Road...in North Carolina Jun 8, 2016
  • February 2016
    • Feb 18, 2016 Manifest Pussy Feb 18, 2016
  • January 2016
    • Jan 18, 2016 Letter to the Revolution Jan 18, 2016
    • Jan 14, 2016 MY FIRST REAL DATE AS A WOMAN Jan 14, 2016
  • April 2015
    • Apr 5, 2015 Post-Op Update: 6 months and counting Apr 5, 2015
  • March 2015
    • Mar 31, 2015 I am a little boat Mar 31, 2015
  • January 2015
    • Jan 28, 2015 Post-Op Update: 4 Months – Keepin’ It Open Jan 28, 2015
  • December 2014
    • Dec 22, 2014 Post-Op Update: 3 months - Little Earthquakes Dec 22, 2014
    • Dec 8, 2014 On my Birthday Dec 8, 2014
  • November 2014
    • Nov 28, 2014 Post-Op Update: Slaying the Dragon Nov 28, 2014
    • Nov 1, 2014 A Rogue Drop Of Rain... Nov 1, 2014
  • October 2014
    • Oct 28, 2014 First Week Home Oct 28, 2014
    • Oct 19, 2014 Getting On Planes Oct 19, 2014
    • Oct 18, 2014 On Coming Home Oct 18, 2014
    • Oct 14, 2014 A General Update, for those who don’t need details or poetry Oct 14, 2014
    • Oct 13, 2014 A Prayer for my New-found and Nearly-Lost Clitoris Oct 13, 2014
    • Oct 8, 2014 Post-Op Update #3 Oct 8, 2014
    • Oct 3, 2014 Footballers II Oct 3, 2014
    • Oct 2, 2014 Footballers Oct 2, 2014
  • September 2014
    • Sep 30, 2014 Post-Op Update #2 Sep 30, 2014
    • Sep 28, 2014 On The Spiritual Side of Things Sep 28, 2014
    • Sep 27, 2014 My First Shower Sep 27, 2014
    • Sep 26, 2014 Post-Op Update #1 Sep 26, 2014
    • Sep 24, 2014 Tonight I’m Crying in my Hospital Bed Sep 24, 2014
    • Sep 23, 2014 a short poem / for a long list / of ex-lovers Sep 23, 2014
    • Sep 22, 2014 TWO HOURS PRE-OP Sep 22, 2014
    • Sep 21, 2014 Sunset over Bang Saen Sep 21, 2014
  • June 2014
    • Jun 6, 2014 KickStartHer Wins! Jun 6, 2014
  • April 2014
    • Apr 17, 2014 On Facial Feminization (and why I decided not to do it) Apr 17, 2014
    • Apr 6, 2014 Letting Go of the Past Apr 6, 2014
  • December 2013
    • Dec 7, 2013 Welcome! Dec 7, 2013
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