Stephanie Yingyi Wang, Ph. D.

Dr. Wang graduated from the University of Washington where she earned her PhD in Feminist Studies. Her decade-long activism in feminist and queer movement in the People’s Republic of China and the region of Asia has led her to research interests in transnational feminism, LGBTQ+ studies, feminist political economy, labor, affect, social movement and NGO politics, and China studies. At St. Lawrence, Dr. Wang teaches courses on transnational LGBTQ politics, gender and sexuality in East-Asia, introduction to Gender & Society, as well as developing new courses on women and international economic development, social reproduction theory, and racial capitalism. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Wang, S. Y. (forthcoming). Cruel Activism: Precarity, Labor, and Affect of Chinese LGBT Rights NGOs. Rutgers University Press.

Wang, S. Y. (forthcoming). “To be gay, or to be Chinese? A decolonial and intersectional analysis of Chinese LGBT identitarian politics”, Atshan, S., Ayoub, P., and Clark, J. (eds), Queer Organizing in the ‘Periphery’: A South-Centric Perspective on Transnational LGBTIQ Activism.

Wang, S. Y. (2023). Labor Precarity of Chinese Feminist and LGBT NGO Activism—a Social Reproduction Perspective. Feminist Formations, 35(2), 54-77.

Wang, S. Y. (2023). Fare Thee Well Beijing LGBT Centre. Made in China Journal, Op-Eds. URL: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/06/08/fare-thee-well-beijing-lgbt-centre/

Wang, S. Y. (2023). “Chinese Lala Communities”, in The LGBTQ+ History Book, Big Ideas Simply Explained series, DK Limited, Penguin Random House.

Wang, S. Y. (2021). Unfinished Revolution: An Overview of Three Decades of LGBT Activism in China. Made in China Journal, 90-95. URL: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/07/15/unfinished-revolution-an-overview-of-three-decades-of-lgbt-activism-in-china/

Wang, S. Y. (2019). When Tongzhi Marry: Experiments of Cooperative Marriage between Lalas and Gay Men in Urban China. Feminist Studies, 45(1), 13-35.