Shakina
@shakeenz.bsky.social
Trans actress, writer, director, producer, priestess 💫 Liberatory Agitator, Doctor of Philosophy 💅🏻😇 you’ve seen me in Difficult People (Hulu), Transparent (Amazon), Connecting (NBC), Problemista (A24), Quantum Leap (NBC), voice of Hana in Tokyo Godfathers.
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Shakina
@shakeenz.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Would be a shame if someone posted an unprotected link to watch my Quantum Leap episode about trans kids in sports.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i4lqp...
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Place an online order from some of the small businesses that will be closed! Closing for even one day is a big risk for some of them.
E.g., order books from our local publishers: bsky.app/profile/port...
Full list of business closures:
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
E.g., order books from our local publishers: bsky.app/profile/port...
Full list of business closures:
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
January 23, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Place an online order from some of the small businesses that will be closed! Closing for even one day is a big risk for some of them.
E.g., order books from our local publishers: bsky.app/profile/port...
Full list of business closures:
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
E.g., order books from our local publishers: bsky.app/profile/port...
Full list of business closures:
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
January 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
Out of Bluesky jail! Wild that I was banned for 3 days after making a clearly satirical plea for someone to come kidnap our president, while our own president clearly kidnapped another, and our federal government is kidnapping hundreds if not thousands of people a day. I hope I learned my lesson?
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Out of Bluesky jail! Wild that I was banned for 3 days after making a clearly satirical plea for someone to come kidnap our president, while our own president clearly kidnapped another, and our federal government is kidnapping hundreds if not thousands of people a day. I hope I learned my lesson?
Y’all The Testament of Ann Lee fucked me up. Am I… a Shaker?
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Y’all The Testament of Ann Lee fucked me up. Am I… a Shaker?
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A foreign president can be held liable under US law, but an American president cannot. Weird.
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
A foreign president can be held liable under US law, but an American president cannot. Weird.
Hi, I’m gender nonconforming. 💅🏻🤷♀️
By my count, I have seven of these so far
Hi. I'm a semi that I rear ended because I fell asleep at the wheel. Or I'm either one of my step brothers shooting at me as a kid. Or I'm the squid ink pasta I didn't know I was allergic to until I got back to my hotel room in a foreign country alone. Or I'm...
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Hi, I’m gender nonconforming. 💅🏻🤷♀️
White trans women need to do a little more work.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
White trans women need to do a little more work.
Once more making enemies with trans sibs who don’t understand that my aversion to respectability politics is also intracommunity. Nary a party line hath she toed. Police my language again sis. 🤷♀️💅🏻
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Once more making enemies with trans sibs who don’t understand that my aversion to respectability politics is also intracommunity. Nary a party line hath she toed. Police my language again sis. 🤷♀️💅🏻
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Cis women when I tell them I'm getting more ffs: noooo don't do that you're so pretty
Trans women when I tell them: hell ya girl chop that pretty face up
Trans women when I tell them: hell ya girl chop that pretty face up
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Cis women when I tell them I'm getting more ffs: noooo don't do that you're so pretty
Trans women when I tell them: hell ya girl chop that pretty face up
Trans women when I tell them: hell ya girl chop that pretty face up
Anyone have United miles to spare? I’m looking to arrange travel for post-production on my visual album and still 15k short! Please DM me if you can throw into our pool! 🙏🏻✈️
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Anyone have United miles to spare? I’m looking to arrange travel for post-production on my visual album and still 15k short! Please DM me if you can throw into our pool! 🙏🏻✈️
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okay so I'm definitely late to this train but the 2020 English dub of Tokyo Godfathers might be the best Christmas movie ever made
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
okay so I'm definitely late to this train but the 2020 English dub of Tokyo Godfathers might be the best Christmas movie ever made
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There's a decent paycheck for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for trans writers standing on the corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There's a decent paycheck for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for trans writers standing on the corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
I’m looking for help to fly my director out to work with our editing team in Chicago next month. Plenty of round trip flights for under $500. If you have miles or a credit card for American Airlines or United and want to support an unabashedly trans visual album, hit me up and Manifest with me! 🙏🏻🫶🏻💖
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I’m looking for help to fly my director out to work with our editing team in Chicago next month. Plenty of round trip flights for under $500. If you have miles or a credit card for American Airlines or United and want to support an unabashedly trans visual album, hit me up and Manifest with me! 🙏🏻🫶🏻💖
Anyone else wanna meet up and practice dancing on graves? I feel like we’re gonna have cause soon and I wanna be ready. 🤷🏼♀️ 🪦 💃🏼
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Anyone else wanna meet up and practice dancing on graves? I feel like we’re gonna have cause soon and I wanna be ready. 🤷🏼♀️ 🪦 💃🏼
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Also, I dont wanna hear that these are unprecedented attacks on trans people when they absolutely are not. You ignore that the Nazis first came for us. You ignore that gender affirming care for trans youth was not a thing prior to 2013. You ignore the right to self-identifty is new and not universal
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Also, I dont wanna hear that these are unprecedented attacks on trans people when they absolutely are not. You ignore that the Nazis first came for us. You ignore that gender affirming care for trans youth was not a thing prior to 2013. You ignore the right to self-identifty is new and not universal
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The 3 Dems who voted to ban trans healthcare need to be primaried
December 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The 3 Dems who voted to ban trans healthcare need to be primaried
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hi all! many moons ago i worked with the amazing @shakeenz.bsky.social at a summer stock theatre in the berkshires. she's currently raising money to get the film of her one woman show, manifest pussy, submitted to the tribeca film festival!
www.gofundme.com/f/manifestp
www.gofundme.com/f/manifestp
Donate to Manifest Shakina’s Album!, organized by Shakina Nayfack
I’m a proud trans actress, writer, and director working in TV, film, and theatre. 10 years a… Shakina Nayfack needs your support for Manifest Shakina’s Album!
www.gofundme.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
hi all! many moons ago i worked with the amazing @shakeenz.bsky.social at a summer stock theatre in the berkshires. she's currently raising money to get the film of her one woman show, manifest pussy, submitted to the tribeca film festival!
www.gofundme.com/f/manifestp
www.gofundme.com/f/manifestp
If you think gender had them pearl-clutching, wait until they find out that sex is nonbinary. 🙀🤯
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If you think gender had them pearl-clutching, wait until they find out that sex is nonbinary. 🙀🤯
Back when I was on the other app 😘
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Back when I was on the other app 😘
I don’t know how my social medias became plagued by videos of cis dudes mewing but as someone with misophonia there is no greater torture than the mouth sounds of prettyboys working on their obnoxious jawlines
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don’t know how my social medias became plagued by videos of cis dudes mewing but as someone with misophonia there is no greater torture than the mouth sounds of prettyboys working on their obnoxious jawlines
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I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
Here for the reclamation of transsexuality. All dressed up, waiting for the party to get started.
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Here for the reclamation of transsexuality. All dressed up, waiting for the party to get started.
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Once in the holiday spirit after watching Tokyo Godfathers, check out our @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social history on the classic film. We discuss it for over FIVE HOURS—its creation, the late director and screenwriters, AND its complicated US release: whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/a-preview-of...
What A Cartoon!: A Preview of What A Cartoon Movie for Tokyo Godfathers
Another month has passed at the , and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2003's classic, To...
whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Once in the holiday spirit after watching Tokyo Godfathers, check out our @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social history on the classic film. We discuss it for over FIVE HOURS—its creation, the late director and screenwriters, AND its complicated US release: whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/a-preview-of...