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23 May 2016

Trans Woman Touring North Carolina in Protest of Anti-LGBT Law

When Shakina Nayfack heard about all the artists and performers boycotting North Carolina because of the new hateful anti-LGBT law HB2, she said, “nah, fuck that”. Ok, I don’t know if that’s exactly what she said, but it was along those lines. Instead of boycotting the state, Shakina felt it

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15 Jan 2016

My First Real Date as a Transwoman

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

Shakina Nayfack 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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06 Jan 2016

My Dating Life as a Transwoman

Last year was a hectic one, recovering from gender confirmation surgery (while writing a show about it), running a theatre company, getting on the scene as a trans actress… So much of my energy was spent working on and talking about becoming a woman in the world that I spent

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