Publications
Yo-Ling has published a wide variety of journalism, translations, and academic scholarship.
Journalism, Reviews, and Essays - Selected Works
Translations - Selected Works
Academic Publications
Journalism
2025/03/07, New Bloom Magazine, "Civil Society Groups Ask Control Yuan to Investigate Ministry of the Interior for Maintaining Compulsory Surgery"
2024/12/09, Taiwan Insight, "What Trump's Election Means for Anti-Gender Mobilisation in Taiwan"
2024/08/29, New Bloom Magazine, "Taiwan's Anti-Gender Movement Engages in Research Misconduct, Mistranslation, and Misinformation"
2024/08/16, New Bloom Magazine, "Taipei High Administrative Court Rules in Defense of Soft Medical Model for Legal Gender Change"
2024/07/18, New Bloom Magazine, "Kaohsiung High Administrative Court Rules Against Compulsory Surgery"
2024/05/30, New Bloom Magazine, "High Administrative Court Rules Again Against Surgery Requirement for Legal Gender Change"
2024/02/29, New Bloom Magazine, "When Will ARA Amendment Discussions Account for Transgender Reproductive Rights?"
2024/02/16, Taiwan Insight, "How Will 2023 Gains in Transgender Rights Fair After the 2024 Elections?"
2024/01/04, New Bloom Magazine, "Transgender Issues Enter Third Party Politics"
2023/11/01, The Diplomat, "Where do Trans Rights in Taiwan Stand After Same-Sex Marriage Legalization?"
2023/09/22, New Bloom Magazine, "Supreme Administrative Court Rules Against Compulsory Surgery For Changing Legal Gender"
2023/03/27, AZE Journal, "Asexual Advocacy in India: An Interview with Dr. Pragati Singh"
2022/10/28, New Bloom Magazine, "Fourth Annual Trans March Brings Visibility as Taiwan's Trans Rights Movement Gains Momentum and Draws Opposition"
2022/09/27, New Bloom Magazine, "Mixed Background Indigenous Peoples and Their Struggle for Legal Reform"
2022/06/10, Taiwan Insight, "Asexuality and LGBTQ+ Activism in Taiwan"
2021/11/21, New Bloom Magazine, "The Struggle for Transgender Rights Continue with Taiwan's First Legal Gender Change without Providing Proof of Surgery"
2021/03/26, New Bloom Magazine, "Over 100 Gather in Taipei for Solidarity March Against Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny"
Reviews
2024/07/14, Syndicate, "Asexual Identity, Erotics, and Relations: The Question of Universality"
2023/09/28, No Man Is An Island, "Transmasculine Storytelling in Taiwan Reaches New Heights with Gia-Yeh Huang’s 《等一下，我的身分證字號是不是給錯了！？》"
2023/07/01, No Man Is An Island, "FTM Representation in Taiwan Takes One Step Forward and Two Steps Back with Chang Yi-ching’s 'Be Myself'"
2022/09/02, No Man Is An Island, "Kinky Community Musical: Tongzhi Politics Meet BDSM, Asexuality, and Polyamory"
2020/12/21, Footnotes, "One More Time from the Top: A Review of Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology"
Essays (English)
2021/09/12, AZE Journal 4(4), "Racial Castration and Demiboy Joy"
2021/05/18, The News Lens, "Abandoning Anthropology, From Virginia to Taipei"
2020/05/28, "After Knowledge."
Essays (Chinese)
2024/06/17, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins -〈拒當種族滅絕共犯：呼籲多元性別社群一起站出來！〉
2024/04/21, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins -〈欠缺的非二元家長稱謂〉
English to Chinese
August 2024, 《孕轉乾坤》Taiwan documentary tour [English-Chinese bilingual subtitling for Jason Barker's A Deal With the Universe (2018)]
2023/05/09, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins,〈浪漫愛正在殺死我們：誰能照顧單身者？〉[translation of Caleb Luna's "Romantic Love is Killing Us: Who Takes Care of Us When We Are Single?" (2018)]
2023/04/19, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins,〈無性戀宣言〉[translation of Lisa Orlando's "The Asexual Manifesto" (1972)]
2023/04/11, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins,〈厭跨女之簡介〉[translation of Julia Serano's "Trans-misogyny primer" (2007)]
2023/03/14, 酷兒翻越 Queer Margins,〈無浪漫宣言〉[translation of yingchen & yingtong's "an aromantic manifesto" (2018)]
Chinese to English
2024/08/19, Frontline - "Her AI Lover: Real or Artificial Love" [translation of ScarlyZ's〈她們的AI戀人——真實或虛妄的愛〉]
Chen, Yo-Ling. 2025. "The 'Global' in Anti-Gender Mobilization." Current History 124(858): 32-34.
Chen, Yo-Ling. 2024. "Are We All Nonbinary in Taiwan? A Recent History of a Transpacific Accident." Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories (Dec 2024).
Chen, Yo-Ling and Panchen Lo. 2024. "Taiwan’s Anti-Gender Movement and the Proleptic Politics of Transnational Transantagonism." Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories (Dec 2024).
Chen, Yo-Ling. 2024. “Toward A Global Asexual Solidarity Beyond Identity.” In KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks’ (eds.) Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition, pp. 383-395. Routledge.