Nayomi Reghay
Writer • Performer • Educator
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Selected Writing:
”This is Hell”: Inside Catherine Cohen’s Instagram Live Quarantine Vulture
Chani Nicholas on the Existential Lure of Astrology Vox
From Catfish to #MeToo: The Decade that Dating Apps Exposed All our Sh*t Daily Dot
Artist Yumi Sakugawa uses Instagram to tackle creative shame Daily Dot
The Hottest Diet of 2019 is the One Where You Don’t Diet Daily Dot
Caroline Calloway and our obsession with feminine deceit Vox
Audrey Kitching is a Myspace Queen turned energy healer. Critics say she’s also a fraud Daily Dot
Are jokes about men hate speech? Facebook seems to think so Daily Dot
Patti Harrison: Meet the trans comedian making fart jokes an act of resistance Rolling Stone
The real reason irrelevant men are still getting Netflix specials Daily Dot
The Aziz Ansari story proves we need to give women a safe space to define their experiences Daily Dot
I went to a pop-up orgasm boutique and all I got was this free vibrator—and enlightenment Daily Dot
Inside the Bumble Hive, the IRL networking lounge from your worst nightmares Daily Dot
What it’s like to look for love on Tinder when you’re polyamorous Mic
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Humor Writing:
Flirty first-date lip stains that say ‘I’m ambitious, but I won’t outshine you!’ Reductress
Crowd weeps as brave woman buys and eats slice of cake Reductress
Quiz: Is your life together enough for you to rock a messy bun? Reductress
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Personal Essays:
Voluntary Interruptions Femsplain
My Mom Fell for a Scam Artist on Match.com Daily Dot
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About Nayomi:
Nayomi is a writer, performer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Her writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Reductress, the Daily Dot, Femsplain, Mic, Someecards, and others.
She is the author of Swipe This, an advice column about how we relate in the digital era.
Before working as a writer, Nayomi was a New York City Teaching Fellow. She taught English and Creative Writing at public and charter schools in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Lower East Side for eight years. During her time as a teacher, she helped to organize a teacher’s union, launched community events where her students could share their creative writing with the public, and wrote groundbreaking curriculum as a Common Core Fellow. Nayomi has carried her lifelong love of learning beyond the classroom, and in 2015, she created and hosted What Have You Learned?, a podcast about how we learn and grow.
Nayomi is also an alumnus of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre where she studied and performed advanced improv. She co-created and performed in the flagship show The Female Gaze. She also hosted independent shows where underrepresented performers could hone their comedy skills such as The Middle Income Matchmaker, a character show, and Mouthy: an open mic for broads and others with big opinions.
Nayomi also co-created and starred in Boothylicious, a webseries about photobooths, props, and the women who love them.
She currently hosts Fran: An open mic for queens in Brooklyn!
For her thoughts on crying, cake, and baby animals, you can follow her on Twitter: @nayomireghay.