Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Published Essays
I am a man who exists at many intersections, and so the space I occupy in sociopolitical realm is liminal, or one could say, inherently complicated. I use this personal narrative to carve out and argue for greater spaces for our shared humanity.
"Do not disappear the words."
Commissioned and published by MacDowell. Read here.
Against Productivity: Playwrights Xandra Nur Clark and Mashuq Mushtaq Deen talk about the writing process
Commissioned and for Imagining, a Gibney Journal. Read here (scroll down and click the link).
"Liminal Spaces"
Published in the anthology Surviving Transphobia, which will be published by a UK press and available for purchase in the autumn of 2023.
"Ungrateful Child"
Published in This Alien Nation, published by HarperVia. Purchase it here.
"A Very Very Short History of a Transgender Man"
Published in Our Stories: A Introduction to South Asian America. Purchase it here.
"A Letter To a Thousand Other Mothers"
Published in The Journal of Asian American Studies and In The Margins (the latter is published by the Asian American Writers Workshop).