About Yasi Shaker

Yasi Shaker(they/them) is a QTBIPOC symbiont, artist, farmer, and sociologist from Tehran, Iran currently living in diaspora on unceded Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute tribes’ homeland in so-called Salt Lake City. They are the creator of the Garden Comrades: A Queer Community Garden Oracle Deck. They see the world as a series of interconnected webs, and the current catastrophe as wrought by failing systems rooted in broken connections with ourselves, each other, ancestors, land, and other living and non-living beings. Yasi is a pleasure activist,emergent strategist, and diasporic immigrant who loves and cares as a liberatory act through relationship anarchy. Their passion lies in the restoration and reconnection of sacred bonds and in healing injustices in our social and ecological communities.

From pomegranate seeds
to pushing and bending borders
influences in my life have
planted the seeds of resistance
in me