I am Heng (Simone) Wang, a Han Chinese researcher, activist, and journalist. My research engages with trans studies, transnational feminisms, Sinophone studies, and sexual and reproductive ethics. With an interdisciplinary background in sociology, art history, and gender studies, my research employs mixed methods including ethnography, archival study, and aesthetic critique. My work can be found in Journal of Homosexuality. The courses I have been teaching include Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, Introduction to Social Justice, Asian Canadians in Popular Culture and Modern Standard Chinese. I work as a teaching assistant and research assistant at the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto from 2022 to 2024, and at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia since 2024.

I am committed to advancing the livelihood of 2SLGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities and promoting social justice in the global south. I was the chair and have been a researcher in the academic department of ColorsWorld, a student-led queer youth community, since 2020. I was a committee member of the 2SLGBTQ+ Student Mental Health Advisory Committee at the Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research at the University of Toronto.

I became a film journalist in 2019. I have covered the Toronto International Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival yearly for World Screen, one of the most influential and widely circulated film journals in China. I was accepted into the TIFF 2023 Media Inclusion Initiative and the SFF 2024 Press Inclusion Initiative, both with media accreditation and a stipend.