Liu et al. 17 Author Biographies Wen Liu is a PhD candidate in Critical Social Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center,City University of New York.She draws on queer theory,dias- pora studies,and critical psychology in her academic research.She is a scholar- activist in the LGBT studies and the co-director of the Institute for Tongzhi Studies,a NYC-based organization that facilitates the transnational queer dia- logues among Taiwan,China,and the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.She is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College. Ana Huang is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.Her current research focuses on Chinese queer women's activism and the politics of affect and temporality.Her earlier research explored masculine and feminine gender roles within Chinese lesbian culture.Ana has been a key figure in the growing queer movement in China.She served on the organizing committee of the Chinese Lala Alliance from 2008 to 2012 and serves on the editorial board of Queer Lala Times,an online publication. Jingchao Ma is a current doctoral student in Philosophy at Villanova University. She is interested in forming a feminist understanding of subjectivity,social power, and bodily experience,and thereby creating new ways of imagining political futures.Her research draws from various resources,including phenomenology, existentialism,post-structuralism,and psychoanalysis.Besides her academic work,she has participated in a feminist theater work in her college in Shanghai, and currently serves as a board member of Chinese Lala Alliance. Downloaded from fap.sagepub.com by guest on November 4.2016Author Biographies Wen Liu is a PhD candidate in Critical Social Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She draws on queer theory, dias￾pora studies, and critical psychology in her academic research. She is a scholar– activist in the LGBT studies and the co-director of the Institute for Tongzhi Studies, a NYC-based organization that facilitates the transnational queer dia￾logues among Taiwan, China, and the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. She is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College. Ana Huang is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her current research focuses on Chinese queer women’s activism and the politics of affect and temporality. Her earlier research explored masculine and feminine gender roles within Chinese lesbian culture. Ana has been a key figure in the growing queer movement in China. She served on the organizing committee of the Chinese Lala Alliance from 2008 to 2012 and serves on the editorial board of Queer Lala Times, an online publication. Jingchao Ma is a current doctoral student in Philosophy at Villanova University. She is interested in forming a feminist understanding of subjectivity, social power, and bodily experience, and thereby creating new ways of imagining political futures. Her research draws from various resources, including phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis. Besides her academic work, she has participated in a feminist theater work in her college in Shanghai, and currently serves as a board member of Chinese Lala Alliance. Liu et al. 17 Downloaded from fap.sagepub.com by guest on November 4, 2016