I am a socio-cultural anthropologist and a science and technology studies (STS) scholar in gender, medicine, and the body. Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the interdisciplinary program of History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) at MIT.

My research focuses on Chinese trans subjects and the multiplicity of their experiments and improvisations with medicine, kinship, and the law through care, mobilities, and knowledge production in China and Thailand.

I have written extensively about queer and trans science, technology, and medicine. My published work has appeared or is forthcoming in Social Science & Medicine, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and GLQ.

Some of the research keywords that I think with are: medical hybridities, hormones, surgeries, experiments, tinkering, and the material-semiotic.

I am currently making a short documentary film about gender transition and its trajectories across China and Thailand.

Please feel free to get in touch with me via thelmaw[at]mit.edu