Public Engagement

Yo-Ling engages in a wide variety of advocacy work in both Chinese and English. They frequently speak to a variety of audiences both in Taiwan and abroad, primarily about gender/sexuality.

Selected Talks, Workshops, Panels, and Teaching

Community Surveys

Public Talks

  • 2026/08/19 - "Power, Position, and Possibility: A Taiwanese Left Perspective on Taiwan's Transgender Movement." Plenary talk given in English at Tamkang University for the Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute's Summer Peacebuilding Training program.

  • 2026/07/31 - "Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms: Scholar-Activist Reflections on the Erotics of Editing." Public online dialogue talk given in English with Ela Przybyło for the AroAce Research Network. YouTube recording available here.

  • 2026/03/21 -〈夢見跨性別烏托邦 Dreaming TransUtopia: 鄭淑麗與有靈 藝術與倡議之對話 An Artist-Activist Dialogue with Shu Lea Cheang and Yo-Ling Chen〉. Public dialogue talk given in Chinese at New Bloom's community space, Daybreak.

  • 2026/01/29 - "Peacebuilding Across Taiwan and Okinawa: A Conversation with Kamoshita Yuichi and Aihara Sarasa." Moderated dialogue with anti-US military base peace activists from Okinawa, conducted in English at New Bloom's community space, Daybreak. YouTube recording available here.

  • 2025/06/04 - "Temporality and Affect in the Transnational Rhetoric of Taiwan's Anti-Gender Movement." Public lecture given in English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation at International Christian University's Center for Gender Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

  • 2024/05/23 -〈跨性別生育力、（人工）生殖權與酷兒政治〉["Transgender Fertility, (Assisted) Reproductive Rights, and Queer Politics"]. Public talk given at 女書店 Fembooks in Chinese. Summary available here.

  • 2023/07/05 -〈多元性別宇宙下的非二元主體〉["The Genderverse and Non-binary Subjectivities"]. Public talk given at 國立高雄師範大學性別教育研究所 National Kaohsiung Normal University Graduate Institute of Gender Education in Chinese.

  • 2023/05/10 - "Minimizing Marriage." Public talk given in Chinese at Book Bar Taipei, co-hosted by the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.

  • 2023/04/26 -〈性傾向跟性別何關？無性戀與無性別的主體性〉["What Is the Relationship between Sexuality and Gender? Asexual and Agender Subjectivities"]. Public talk given at 女書店 Fembooks in Chinese.

  • 2022/03/31 - 〈2021年台灣無性戀社群問卷調查報告發表會〉["2021 Taiwan Ace Community Survey Results Presentation"]. Public talk given at 女書店 Fembooks in Chinese.

Teaching

  • 2026/09/09 to 2026/12/16 - 《愛跨工具箱：跨性別研究系列課程》[Loving Trans: Lessons and Tools from Trans Studies]. 15-week public transgender studies class in Chinese, co-taught with Panchen Lo and co-facilitated with Siufung Law, at 女書店 Fembooks.

  • 2026/07/03 -〈粉紅清洗後：恐怖主義指控下的巴勒斯坦與跨性別運動〉["After Pinkwashing: Are We All Terrorists? Palestinian and Transgender Movements Now"]. Guest lecture given at New Taipei City Yonghe Community University 新北市永和社區大學 Shih Hsin University in Chinese.

  • 2025/12/22 -〈女性主義與無性戀及非二元性別何關？〉["What Does Feminism Have to Do with Asexuality and Nonbinary Gender?"]. Guest lecture given at Shih Hsin University for GNDR536: 女性主義理論 [Feminist Theories] course in Chinese.

  • 2025/11/19 - 〈不只是粉紅清洗：從全球極右與反跨浪潮談巴勒斯坦〉["Beyond Pinkwashing: Palestine, Transphobia, and the Global Far-Right"]. Public talk given at National Taiwan University in Chinese for 台大老工社 NTU Labor Club, 台大濁水溪社 NTU Dalawasao Club, and 台大女研社 NTU Feminism Club.

  • 2024/10/22 - "Asexuality and (Asian American) Masculinities." Guest lecture given at Virginia Commonwealth University for SOCY335/GWSW303: Sociology of Masculinities course in English.

  • 2024/06/06 to 2024/08/08 - 《無性戀研究系列課程：親密、親屬與身體的重建》[Asexuality Studies Class: Reconstructing Intimacy, Kinship, and the Body]. 10-week public asexuality studies class given in Chinese at 女書店 Fembooks.

  • 2023/12/06 - 有靈QA. Class visit at Taipei National University of the Arts for GTHPP: 酷兒展演：影像化主體 [Queer Studies - Visual Representation] course in Chinese.

  • 2024/03/01 -〈酷兒理論教不到的跨性別生育力〉["What Does Queer Theory (Fail to) Teach Us about Trans Fertility?"]. Public talk given at 台大女研社 NTU Feminism Club in Chinese.

  • 2023/10/25 -〈2023年台灣非二元社群問卷調查報告發表會〉["2023 Taiwan Non-binary Community Survey Results Presentation"]. Public talk given at 女書店 Fembooks in Chinese.

  • 2023/10/16 -〈無性戀與非二元社群的法律處境〉["Legal Issues Facing the Asexual and Non-binary Community"]. Guest lecture given at Shih Hsin University for G302: 性別與法律 [Gender and Law] course in Chinese.

  • 2022/11/10 -〈無性戀/無浪漫研究〉["Asexuality/Aromanticism Studies"]. Guest lecture given at National Taiwan University for SOC 5020: 酷兒理論 [Queer Theory] course in Chinese.

Workshops

  • 2025/11/15 - 〈性權對話：無性戀政治與障礙〉["Asexual Politics and Disability: A Dialogue on Sexual Rights"]. Private talk-dialogue workshop given at Hand Angel in Chinese.

  • 2025/08/17 - 〈反跨資訊鏈：錯誤和誤導資訊的追查與拆解〉["Anti-Trans Information Circuits: Analyzing and Deconstructing Dis/Misinformation"]. Lecture given at the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights' annual feminism camp to train Taiwanese activists in anti-trans disinformation research and response work.

Panel Presentations

  • 2025/05/24 - 〈非二元研究的（不）可能性 〉["On the (Im)Possibility of Nonbinary Studies]. Panel presentation given in Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University's Taiwan transgender studies conference, 《「跨」的多元視野:台灣跨性別的歷史、現況與轉變》.

  • 2025/03/28 - "Historicizing 'Gender Identity' in Postwar Taiwan: Intersex and Transsexual Medicine, 1950s-1990s." Online panel presentation given at the Moving Trans History Forward 2025 conference.

  • 2024/11/15 - "Post-Op Only: Populist Affect in Taiwan's New Anti-Gender Movement." Co-presented panel presentation with Panchen Lo given at the 2024 National Women's Studies Annual Conference.

  • 2024/05/25 -〈人工生殖法下一步座談會：守護兒童婦女權益、破除性別二元與異性戀婚家假設〉["Panel on Next Steps for the Assisted Reproduction Act: Protect the Rights of Children and Women, Break the Gender Binary and Hetero-Family Assumptions"]. Panelist for panel co-organized by the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights, Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy, the Gender Diversity Committee of the Taiwan Bar Association, and the Foundation of Women's Rights Promotion and Development.

  • 2024/09/06 - "Are We All Non-binary in Taiwan? A Recent History of a Transnational Accident." Panel presentation given at the Second International Trans Studies Conference.

  • 2024/09/06 - "Wither Taiwan? Towards a Transnational Postdisciplinary Trans Studies." Panel chair and organizer for coordinated panel consisting of five presentations by Taiwanese gender studies scholars for the Second International Trans Studies Conference.

  • 2023/10/22 -〈異同之外的異與同：雙泛性戀社群與無性戀社群的對話〉["Similarities and Differences beyond Heterosexual and Homosexual: A Dialogue between the Bisexual/Pansexual and Asexual Community"]. Panelist for panel co-hosted by Bi the Way ‧ 拜坊 and 台灣無性戀小組 Taiwan Asexual Group in Chinese.

  • 2021/05/21 - "(Settler) Homonational Taiwan: Departures in Traveling Theory." Online panel presentation given at the North American Taiwan Studies Association 2021 Keywording Taiwan Online Conference.

Building off prior community surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015 in Taiwan, as well as the Ace Community Survey, Yo-Ling served as community research lead for the 台灣無性戀小組 Taiwan Asexual Group's 2021 Taiwan Ace Community Survey. The full survey results are currently available in Chinese only, but an English write-up can be found on Taiwan Insight here.

Through their capacity as a core member of 台灣非二元酷兒浪子 Taiwan Non-binary Queer Sluts, Yo-Ling conducted Taiwan's first non-binary community survey in 2023, the full survey results of which are available in Chinese here. Yo-Ling also conducted the 2024 Taiwan Non-binary Community Survey; survey results are available in Chinese here.