Plenary Speaker

  • “Historicizing Trans Panic: “Parental Rights” and Anti-SOGI Mobilization Among First-Generation Canadians” in Trans History Plenary. Critical Feminist Histories Conference. Kingston, Ontario, 2026 October. (forthcoming)

Chair

  • Panel: “Transnational Transfemininities”. The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Online, 2025 August.

  • Roundtable: “Theorizing Sexualities”. 120th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, 2025 August.

  • Roundtable: “Gender Politics”. 119th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Québec, 2024 August.

Paper Presenter

2026

  • “Trans Orientalism.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Lahore, Pakistan, 2026 September. (under review)

  • “Silencing Queer, Queering Silence: Nationalism, Pronatalism, and Anti-Gender Ideology in Contemporary China.” Gender and Sexual Politics of Far-Right Populism in Asia International Conference. Seoul, South Korea, 2026 July. (forthcoming)

  • “Queer Autoethnography on Knowledge Production and the Limit of Resistance.” The first ‘Intergalactic’ Conference on Resistance Studies. Amherst, Massachusetts, 2026 June. (under review)

  • “Ku’er Guerrilla: Policing Chinese Higher Education, Queer Youth Community-Building as Resistance.” The first ‘Intergalactic’ Conference on Resistance Studies. Amherst, Massachusetts, 2026 June. (under review)

  • “Ku’er Contingency and Loose Solidarity in a Chinese Queer Youth Community.” American Ethnological Society Spring Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, 2026 May. (under review)

  • “Model Deviant: An Autoethnography of Navigating Queer Knowledge in PRC University.” American Ethnological Society Spring Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, 2026 May. (under review)

  • “Trans Orientalism and the Postcolonial Empire of Consent”2026 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Honolulu, Hawai’i, 2026 April. (forthcoming)

  • “Trans-Feminist Paradox, Ornamental Knowledge, and the Political Economy of Translating Gender in China.” Queer-Class Relations Conference. Online, 2026 April. (forthcoming)

  • “Sanitized Knowledge: An Autoethnography of Doing LGBTQ+ Research in PRC University”. Association for Asian Studies 2026 Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2026 March. (forthcoming)

2025

  • “The Violence in and of Transamorous Cinema”. 2025 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2025 November.

  • “‘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.

  • “Bare Gender: On the Opacity and Negativity of Oriental Transness”. 11th International Biennial Graduate Student Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2025 October.

  • “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.

Organizer

  • Panel: “Trans-ing Archives, Languages, and Disciplines: Towards an Unsettled Asian Trans Studies.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Lahore, Pakistan, 2026 September. (under review)

  • Panel: “Experiments Beyond Identity: Unsettling Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary China.” American Ethnological Society Spring Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, 2026 May. (under review)

  • Panel: “Policing PRC Universities, Ku’er Autoethnography as Resistance”. Association for Asian Studies 2026 Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, 2026 March. (forthcoming)

  • Panel: “Mapping Transgender Survival and Transfeminism in Contemporary China”. Association for Asian Studies 2024 Annual Conference. Online, 2024 March.

  • Panel: “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

  • “Difficult Knowledge: Understanding ‘Parental Rights’ and Anti-SOGI Mobilization Among Sinophone Canadian Parents in Metro Vancouver”. Public Education Exchange. Online, 2026 March. (forthcoming)

  • “Queer/Trans Activism and the TERF Backlash in China: Part II”. Mandarin for Social Justice, Palestine Solidarity Action Network. Online. 2025 September.

  • “Queer/Trans Activism and the TERF Backlash in China: Part I”. Mandarin for Social Justice, Palestine Solidarity Action Network. Online. 2025 July.