Stephanie Yingyi Wang, Ph. D.
Ph.D., Feminist Studies
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
M.Phil., Gender Studies
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
B.Econ., Economics
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Dr. Wang is a queer scholar-activist, a psychic healer, and a Hakka mom. She holds a PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of Washington, and received her MPhil in Gender Studies from the University of Hong Kong, and BEcon from Sun Yat-sen University, China. Dr. Wang's decade-long activism in feminist and queer movement in China and the region of Asia has led her to research interests in transnational feminism, LGBTQ+ studies, feminist political economy, affect, social movement studies, NGO politics, and diaspora studies. She is also the co-founder of r&B bi+ group, the longest running bisexual and pansexual network in China since 2013.
Dr. Wang's personal website: https://stephaniewang.blog
Classes Taught
-Gender & Society (GNDR-103)
-Sexuality, Society & Culture (GNDR-180)
-Transnational LGBTQ Politics (GNDR-3091)(cross listed POLS-3191)
-Capitalism, Labor & Politics of Care (GNDR-4017)(cross listed SOC-4017)
-Gender and Sexuality in China (GNDR-4048)(cross listed ASIA-4048 and SOC-4048)
Publications
-Wang, S. Y. (forthcoming). Cruel Activism: Labor and Affect of Chinese LGBTQ Organizations. Rutgers University Press.
-Wang, S. Y. (2026). Decolonizing politics of (In)visibility and LGBT rights —— being queer/tongzhi in China’s “new normal”. Sexualities, online first.
-Wang, S. Y. (2025). Precarious Labour, affect, and intersectional inequalities: Working as feminist and LGBT NGO activist-workers in China. Organization, 32(7), 1001-1019.
-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.
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Office Hours
2:40-4:00pm Tue/Thur and by appointment. My office is now Piskor 103.