I’m a Toronto-based activist and community organiser building transnational solidarity against sexism, racism, and ableism.
As a queer diaspora myself, I actively engage in activism to build transnational solidarity across East Asia and North America, advocating feminist justice as a global struggle against sexism, racism, and ableism.
Based in Toronto, I’m a public speaker and community organiser, and I actively work with queer feminist, disability justice, and climate justice organisations and communities, especially with progressive (im)migrants and dissidents from China, Hong Kong, and South Korea. I also collaborate with grassroots organisations and activists based in Taiwan, South Korea, the US, and more. I’m open to collaborating to organise community education workshops, public speaking, guest speaking, and more.
Speaking & Organising
Born in a small town in China and later moving to Canada, I grew up facing oppression for my dissident, queer, and disabled identities. Over time, I learned to transform personal struggles into community activism and solidarity, On the Insight Myanmar Podcast, I shared my stories and insights as a youth human rights activist.
Since middle school period in China, I spoke out anonymously for Hong Kong’s democracy and freedom. After moving to Canada in 2022, I joined the organisation Students for Hong Kong, advocating publicly as a speaker and community organiser for rallies and community workshops. I also engaged in online advocacy, gaining over 10,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) in 2023 before deleting my account for safety reasons.
I now view diaspora struggles and other social issues, as intersectional issues shaped by the context of global capitalism. I collaborate with organisations and activists worldwide and work on projects such as fundraising for Gaza, community education programs, and other initiatives supporting oppressed communities.
In 2025, I presented “Solemn Hour: A Disabled Chinese Youth’s Confession to Gaza”. In this work, I reflected on my lived experience as a disabled diaspora and my journey toward solidarity, hope, and collective resistance with the Palestinian community. I was also invited by the Korean Feminists & Socialists of Canada (KFSC) as a guest speaker for the event "Is an Alternative Korean Community Connected Through Solidarity Possible? – From Namtaeryeong to Toronto, Toronto to Gaza", where I shared my insights on transnational feminist movements within East Asian communities resisting global colonialism at York University.
My zine, "From East Turkestan to Palestine: Against Genocide as Han Chinese and Jews" (bilingual in English and Traditional Mandarin Chinese), is now on sale, with all profits going directly to support Palestinian and Uyghur communities.
Image: Yafang Shi
Image: Lital Khaikin
2025 Pride Month
This Pride Month, I want to amplify trans community to celebrate the strength of our solidarity in a time of rising hatred. This hatred is not only embodied the Trump-style right-wing politics, but also by the global trend of separatist ideologies that try to divide us, positioning LGB and women’s rights against trans existence, and fragmenting the whole queer community.
We’ve also witnessed how governments, banks, and fossil fuel and mining corporations have become complicit in hijacking our identities and histories, using them to justify colonialism in Palestine, Congo, and Sudan; against First Nations, migrants, and refugees.
An imperial regime wages war and aggravates climate injustice by dropping bombs and poisoning the clean water. A xenophobic nation that marginalises migrant and refugees is the ableist society that divides people into different classes and forces disabled people to fit a single, violent norm.
We live with different identities, but we are all struggling in the same world.
I remember the first activity I participated in after coming to Canada — it was a trans rally in 2022. I had just arrived from China, where activism is illegal, so it was my first time experiencing freedom. I appreciate the freedom and have continued to show up, whether as a public speaker or working behind the scenes.
Now, I’m watching the government in my home country criminalise queer writers for writing BL novels, while the Hong Kong democracy I’ve been advocating for years is being eroded again, as one of its last pro-democracy parties disbands under political pressure. And here, we’re all facing Bill C-5 in Canada and ICE in the US. Our freedom is under threat, so I’m here again — to call out the violence.
Pride has always been resistance against injustice. It’s not a tool to justify pinkwashing. My queerness is always tied with my identity as disabled, diaspora, and dissident. This intersection motivates me to stand in solidarity with justice and liberation for all.
When an era forces us to deny our existence, we become the generation that stops injustice through resistance. We are the stonewall rebellion of our time.
Image: Yo-Ling Chen (陳有靈)