
Chair
Panel: Transnational Transfemininities. The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Online, 2025 August.
Sexualities Roundtable: Theorizing Sexualities. 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2025 August.
Sex & Gender Roundtable: Gender Politics. 119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec, 2024 August.
Refereed Conference Presenter
2026
“Sanitized Knowledge: An Autoethnography of Doing LGBTQ+ Research in PRC University”. Association for Asian Studies 2026 Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2026 March. (under review)
2025
“The Violence in and of Transamorous Cinema”. 2025 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2025 November. (forthcoming)
“‘We Are the Last Generation’: Antinatal Solidarity Between Queer and Radical Feminists in Pronatalist China”. 2025 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2025 November. (forthcoming)
“Bare Gender: On the Opacity and Negativity of Oriental Transness”. 11th International Biennial Graduate Student Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 October. (forthcoming)
“Policing PRC Universities, Ku’er Autoethnography as Resistance”. 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2025 August.
“Gender Conservatism and Anti-LGBT Ideology in China: A Discourse Analysis of Public Perceptions of the Paris Olympics”. 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2025 August.
“(In)Visibilizing Trans Femininity in Neoliberal Postsocialist Times”. The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Online, 2025 August.
“Trans Orientalism and the Postcolonial Archive of Shi Pei Pu”. Moving Trans History Forward Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, 2025 March.
“Understanding Chinese TERFism Through the Political Economy of Translating Gender”. 2025 Asian Studies Graduate Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 March.
2024
“Tranny Trickery: Rethinking Sexual Consent Through Trans-Intersex Corporeality”. 2nd International Trans Studies Conference. Evanston, Illinois, 2024 September.
“Trans*itional Justice Undone: Suku, Storytelling and the Cultural Practices of Trans Elders in Postsocialist China”. 2nd International Trans Studies Conference. Evanston, Illinois, 2024 September.
“Transnational Circulation of Transphobia and the Mobilization of Vulnerability Among Chinese Trans-exclusionary Feminists on Social Media”. 2nd International Trans Studies Conference. Evanston, Illinois, 2024 September.
“Queering Boundaries Through Passing: Embodied Practices and Gender Identity of Trans Students in China”. 119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec, 2024 August.
“Spontaneity, Decentralization and Loose Solidarity of Queer Activism in Contemporary China”. 119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec, 2024 August.
“Designing Gender-inclusive Learning Materials for Chinese as a Foreign Language Classrooms”. 2nd Annual Gender-Inclusive Language Conference. Online, 2024 April.
“Antinatalist Feminism, Necrotrans Haunting, and the Afterlife of the One-child Nation”. Association for Asian Studies 2024 Annual Conference. Online, 2024 March.
2023
“Trans Autobiography and Neoliberal Politics of (In)Visibility in Postsocialist China”. 2023 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, 2023 October.
“Sex and Gender Disparities in Perception, Attitude and Social Intimacy among Sinophone Youth towards Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals: Based on an Internet Survey”. The Population Association of America 2023 Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, 2023 April.
2021
“The Skin I Inhabit: Gender Identity and Embodied Practices of Trans Students in China”. Annual Conference of the Chinese Sociological Association. Chongqing, China, 2021 July.

Panel Organizer
“Policing PRC Universities, Ku’er Autoethnography as Resistance”. Association for Asian Studies 2026 Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2026 March. (under review)
“Mapping Transgender Survival and Transfeminism in Contemporary China”. Association for Asian Studies 2024 Annual Conference. Online, 2024 March.
“Trans*ing Chineseness: Authenticity, Mobility, and Nationalism in 21st-century China”. 2023 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, 2023 October.
Public Talk
“Talking Porn With Camera On”. The Podcast Zhi De Biao Yang. Online, 2025 July.
“Queer/Trans Activism and the TERF Backlash in China”. Mandarin for Social Justice, Palestine Solidarity Action Network. Online. 2025 July.
“Queer and Trans Media”. Vancouver Technical Secondary School. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 April.
“Trans Orientalism and the Postcolonial Archive”. GRSJ Graduate Research Colloquium. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 April.
“Tranny Trickery: Rethinking Sexual Consent Through Trans-Intersex Corporeality”. The 3rd Qingyan Queer Studies Conference. Online, 2025 January.
“Jinxing in the Making: Trans Celebrity, Autobiography and Unqueering Femininity in Postsocialist China”. Trans Celebrity International Symposium. Online, 2024 September.
“Ruins of Memorial: Diasporic Thinking of the Departed Chinese Trans on Transgender Day of Remembrance”. Toronto, Ontario, 2023 November.
“Vulnerability or Fragility: the Emergence of Transmisogyny Among Chinese Feminists on Social Media”. The Sexual Diversity Studies Student Research Colloquium. Toronto, Ontario, 2023 March.
“Trans / Queer / Feminism”. The Podcast Zhi De Biao Yang. Online, 2023 February.
“The Way of Passing: Transness, Gender Nonconformity and the Boundaries of Identity”. The 2nd Qingyan Queer Studies Conference. Online, 2022 November.
“Class Representative Speech: Treating Melancholy With Responsibility”. Peking University Department of Sociology Graduation Ceremony. Beijing, 2022 June.
“Patch Things Up by ‘Li’: The Logic of Protest and its Dissolution in Rural China”. Department of Sociology Undergraduate Fieldwork Worshop. Beijing, 2020 October.
