Field

Trans Studies

Region

China

Theoretical Background

• Trans/Queer/Feminist Theory
• Marxist-Feminist Critique
• Police/Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Cybernetics and Media Theory
• Affect Theory
• Trans/Queer Archiving and History
• Oral History

Interests

• Assimilation of transness in the Hukou system, institutionalization of “社会性别 [gender],” and transformations in family structures, gender norms, and labor relations under neoliberalism
• Community histories and genealogies of trans femininity and practices of trans care before/alongside/against “transgender” in post-socialist China (1980s-)
• Alternate imaginations/practices of justice in trans, queer, and feminist activism and the potential for police, prison, and family abolition