Miyuki Baker

Miyuki Baker is a queer multi-racial, multi-lingual mixed-media artist. In 2012, she was a recipient of the Watson Fellowship. She is also a “journalist, yoga and meditation teacher, barber, translator, seamstress, lecturer and performer.”

Miyuki graduated from Swarthmore College in 2012. In the Fall of 2015, she began a PhD program in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Miyuki was on the Queer and Trans Conference Steering Committee at Swarthmore College.

For her 2012 Watson Fellowship, Miyuki travelled to 15 different countries in 14 months and “explored the art-making of queer communities.” Her project was entitled "Visibly Queer: Exploring the Intersections of Art and Activism." During her travels, she made eight zines under her publishing house Queer Scribe Productions.

Miyuki is also known as the “Queer Barber”. She cuts hair while having conversations with her clients about queer issues.