meet the QiKis
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meet the QiKis *
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Born & Raised on Ramaytush & Lisjan-Ohlone Territory, Ariel grew up intergenerationally within a mixed-Japanese family and loves living in the Bay Area. They love it here so much, they became Your Trans Realtor and seek to help folks navigate staying in the area long-term. Their passions include Land Back projects, collective housing, and intergenerational living. They’re also a really big basketball fan, Go Valkyries … Go Warriors! While at QiKi Club, they flex their cheer muscles and enjoy supporting any way they can. From front desk, to hype guy; Ariel loves what’s being created here and they just want to help keep the ball rollin’. They dabble in finance and love using the laminator!
IG: @bayarielviews
Find them at Kai Real Estate: Ariel Broshar
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forest (Yang Earth Dragon × Yin Wood Goat) is a mycelial connector, intimacy activist, embodiment coach. They love bringing magical containers of connection, healing, art, and play to life—especially for QT azn diasporic kin. You can find them with their friends - rolling on the floor, dancing unabashedly, whittling wood, playing mahjong, and singing karaoke (badly and proudly). Infinitely stoked to usher QiKi dreams out to the world with chosen fam—doing what we love, with who we love, for the wider web of community. Front of desk + biz dev + cheeky social media dude. Also here to offer serpentine intuitive bodywork, Chinese BaZi Astrology readings, or consultations on how to live a life you love!
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born and raised on bay miwok land to immigrants from hong kong, they are queer & of the chinese diaspora living on ohlone land. they are currently studying chinese / east asian medicine and practicing what it means to embody ancestral ways of being in their body, in relationships, and in community. kt is an ongoing student of earth and sky in various forms of astrology, and they are a dreamer bridging the dreaming and waking worlds. they love to dance, move, and be anywhere near (or in) a body of water and/or trees! With qiki, kt offers communal gongfu tea and a space to land before and after receiving treatment. they love getting the opportunity to offer space for connection and conversation at the tea table, as well as the chance to connect with breath and body. their relationship with tea and other forms of ancestral medicine is rooted in the commitment to coming home and revitalizing the source of life that flows within and connects us with all beings.
IG: @kt__tao
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Queer, Chinese diaspora, Cook, community dream doula, narrative and cultural worker, asker of good questions, creative gatherer, land steward.
I cook as a form of resistance, weaving together people, food, land, and culture. I am a cultural worker, using food and story to change the way we live. I doula community dreams as a radical act of world-building and accompaniment. I ask good questions, mostly because I’m curious, but also because change requires asking the right questions. I gather people in creative ways as forms of play to build new worlds. I train in zen for a thriving future for our descendants. I get my hands in the soil because she’s got lots to teach us! My work is sacred because it’s about bearing life of all kinds. Teachers: Norma Wong, trees. Let’s share a meal together?
With QiKi, I feed our crew, I hype them up, and I aspire to offer tai-ji.
IG: @lew_pui_ling
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queer, 2nd-gen korean-american writer, storyteller, and comms strategist.
QiKi Club flow coordinator, admin daddy 💅🏽, comms & partnerships
also: backyard beekeeping. drumming with 끼리 끼리 kkiri kkiri samulnori. lifting + moving the bod. hosting dinner parties. playing in the outdoors. loving up on wifey + doggo.
Decolonized approaches to communication and healing + collective liberation for all <3
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Danni is a mixed queer person who lives on Ohlone land and practices Traditional East Asian Medicine. Danni enjoys spending time with her plant and dog friends, working on creative projects and learning about how to be a better practitioner and better steward of resources and knowledge. Danni loves the QiKis and loves sharing acupuncture with our community(s).
Find them at Bittermelon Acupuncture
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Of Hakka Chinese ancestry, infinity is a queer and gender-free somatic psychotherapist supporting the remembrance of ancestral wisdom and cosmologies of interconnection.
Their offerings are shaped by their own ongoing healing journey and over a decade of study at the intersection of consciousness, the collective psyche, and the body. Their current studies include Daoist and Chinese medicine, martial arts, and ancestral skills in harmony with nature.
They find it funny to write about themself in the third person 🥸. They find joy in relating to plants and creatures; attuning to the seasons (inner and outer); practicing archery and movement arts; making things (food, medicine, carved Chinese seals, pottery, pigments); connecting and scheming with community; and always learning.
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laura identifies as queer, kid of immigrants from India and the Philippines, born a settler on stolen Ohlone land with class privilege. laura started receiving acupuncture after a health scare in 2013 and has been hooked ever since so naturally they love hanging out with acupuncturists and TCM enthusiasts. With QiKi, laura supports with admin and bridging the work to community partners. laura brings experience in the fields of public health and community mental health, working with community-based nonprofits and grassroots groups on community rituals/healing justice, program/eval design, somatics-based facilitation/coaching, and fundraising.
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Graduating with a Masters in Acupuncture in 2023, their current practices include: tattoo, tattoo acupuncture, illustration, qigong + martial arts, research + writing on tattoo acupuncture, literary world-building + poetry.
As time progresses, they are calling in more community + healing work, earth/ancestral skills, cultural medicinal/spiritual cultivation, writing residencies + fellowships, land + animal tending, and indigenous + collective liberation.
Feels like a dream to be part of QiKi Club, supporting this collective through offering graphic and flyer design, cupping, gua sha, moxa, reiki. mugen will be offering acupuncture and qigong/martial modalities in the near future!
Grateful to the land, the elements, all beings, and community who continue to teach me the way.
IG: @mugen___________
mugen.love
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Sam is a queer, mixed race Chinese libra earth dragon and acupuncturist practicing on Ohlone land born and raised on the island of Guåhan. She is stoked to provide community care and acupuncture treatments at QiKi events and good eats at club gatherings.
Sam has her own acu practice in Berkeley, Sticky Rice Acupuncture, which focuses on pain management and recovery related to sports medicine and orthopedic issues.
She also provides weekly community-style treatments at Berkeley Community Acupuncture. Her free time is spent with her wife Sarah and their little red dog Benji.
IG: @stickyriceacupuncture
stickyriceacupuncture.com
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Sol is an immigrant and a guest on the Huichin Ohlone land from the ancestors who lived and walked on the lands of north and south Corea. They find joy, nourishment and strength from exploring the foodways of their roots and being a student of their ancestral medicine and Corean drumming and ritual work. With QiKi, they are excited to practice collective liberation and community care work through offering earseeds, cupping and acupressure/ bodywork. Also an ops nerd, they like to provide back-end support.
IG: @sol.entirely
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I'm a queer mixed gender herbalist & plant nerd of Han Chinese/Irish & unknown European ancestry, with Free Hong Kong always in my heart. I’m passionate about skillsharing to build collective tools & knowledge for community healthcare. I know my gaysian ancestors love seeing QiKi club exist, the dream, I’m so grateful to be doing this work together & getting to offer acupuncture & other Asian healing modalities with this brilliant crew. I live on the Lisjan Ohlone land of Huchiun & support the work of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Find them at Bittermelon Acupuncture
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a queer, japanese american somatic therapist and spiritual practitioner on a journey of remembering and cultivating ancestral lifeways that make way for healing, wholeness and freedom. they hold space for individuals and relationships in their online practice, jiyu therapy.
they are passionate about engaging in historical and ancestral bridgework within the asian diaspora through story sharing, medicine exchange, rituals and ceremonies, dance and intuitive movement.
currently in their motherland of osaka, they dream of weaving good 氣氣 across the pacific, further bridging asia and asian america together with their qiki pals.
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Queer NB, neurospicy, chronically-ill, loves fun
Nuffy hails from the Chinese-Jamaican diaspora and they are grateful to call Ohlone land home. They are a Yin Fire Rabbit and have a Leo stellium in the 6th house- (the house of work, health and daily habits)- which has very much led them to feel at home in Chinese Medicine. What began as a community Qi Gong practice and a desire to connect to their Chinese ancestral ways of being and knowing ended up in a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and becoming a licensed acupuncturist.
To Nuffy, QiKi is a dream of world building around community care with other queer asian holders of ancestral medicine/care + purpose. They are excited about offering acupuncture, cupping, ear seeds, qi gong, and good times. They love curating beautiful- warm- life-giving community spaces.
Nuffy works at Bitter Melon Acupuncture and is developing their Facial Acupuncture private practice. You can also find them in the redwoods, by the ocean, on the dance floor, with their giant cat, hanging out with plants and baking muffins :)
IG: @doctorbird.acu
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Sapho Flor is an East Asian Medicine practitioner who is passionate about building models of community care. Through acupuncture and herbal medicine, they provide a safe space to reconnect to self, body and land, nurturing the collective movement towards freedom.