I am a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Toronto, with a Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies. My research lies at the intersection of sexuality, citizenship, digital media, and platform governance, with a focus on contemporary China and Chinese-speaking worlds.

My work examines how sexual identities, practices, and intimate relations are classified, negotiated, and governed across digital and institutional settings. I am particularly interested in how platform architectures, cultural categories, and political conditions shape queer self-representation, sexual normativity, partner evaluation, and the possibilities of sexual citizenship. Methodologically, my research draws primarily on digital ethnography, qualitative interviews, and comparative discourse analysis.

My current projects examine how different platform environments organise the expression of partner preferences and exclusion; how sexual position categories become structured around dominant understandings of penetrative sex; and how queer people negotiate visibility, recognition, and citizenship through digital self-representation. I am also developing research on migration, belonging, and community among Mandarin-speaking LGBTQ+ populations in Canada.

My work has appeared in Citizenship Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, Sexuality & Culture, and Deviant Behavior. My research has been supported by the SSHRC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Doctoral (2026–2029) and the Mark Gayn Graduate Scholarship (2026–2027).