I am Heng Simone Wang 王恒 (they/she), a PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at The University of British Columbia. With a study permit issued by the “Government of Canada” rather than any permission from aboriginal people, I am a first-generation settler, as well as the last of my own, living at UBC campus on the unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm lands. I was born and lived in Hangzhou, China before moving to Toronto for my Master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, my research interests are broadly constructed across trans and queer studies, transnational feminisms, sexual and reproductive ethics, social movement studies, Sinophone studies, and global Asia studies. My current research examines sexual and reproductive ethics through the lens of transfeminist of color critique. My other projects are community-based, mainly focusing on the queer youth activism in the People’s Republic of China.