Freya Shi 施雨 (she/they) is a writer, poet, art practitioner, holistic wellbeing facilitator, and recovering academic. Having lived across two oceans, three continents, and four languages, her practice intentionally integrates critical theory, spirituality, movement, and community engagement in service of collective transformation and liberation.
Freya’s creative practice flowing across mediums including writing, performance, sound, somatics, and workshop. As a researcher-turned-practitioner, Freya practices translating complex theory—including queer and feminist thought, Black and Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities—into embodied and socially engaged work, a situationist chimera that disrupts hierarchies of body, knowledge, and power. Informed by her lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent, Global Majority, and diasporic person of East Asian heritage, Freya’s work also centers feminist care and queer worldbuilding, which manifests in her work as an astrologer, tarot reader, yogi, and meditation teacher supporting communal wellbeing.
Freya is a 2025-6 Barbican Young Poet and a 2024 British Council Venice Biennale Fellow. She is also a mezzo-soprano, a Guzheng player, an aspiring cellist, a slightly lame percussionist, a sound designer, a game designer, a (half) marathon runner, a yogi, and an uncertified but highly acclaimed massage therapist. Freya writes energy updates and cultural criticism on her Substack Mythopoetics for the Living, and her debut book, Unlearning, to Love, is available August 8, 2026. Freya is currently based in London, UK.
