A b o u t

Dr. Wei Si Nic Yiu 姚煒詩 (They/ Them) is a queer transnational feminist scholar of gender, sexuality, and labor. They received their Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in June 2025. Nic’s broad research interests include gender and migration, race and class, labor, and care. Their current research examines Chinese women massage workers’ experience and negotiation of working conditions in the context of racialized and sexualized Asian massage work. 

Their work is informed and inspired by their migration experiences in Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto, and now Los Angeles. Their research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Their work has been published in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies Volume 2, the Journal of Homosexuality, and more. Outside of academic life, you can find Nic playing with cats at the Stray Cat Alliance, sipping on tea with young queer people at ProjectQ, or reading graphic novels under the sun. 

姚煒詩博士 (X也) 是一位跨國跨學科酷兒學者。姚煒詩的研究廣泛，專長涵蓋性別、移民經驗、種族與階級、關懷工作等。X也目前的研究聚焦於華裔女性按摩工作者在美國的工作和生活經驗。X也的寫作靈感來自於自己在香港、北京、多倫多、和現在的洛杉磯的移民經歷。

姚煒詩的研究得到了加拿大社會科學和人文研究委員會 (SSHRC) 和溫納·格倫基金 (Wenner-Gren）等組織的支持。姚煒詩的研究成果曾發佈於《女同性戀研究期刊》(Journal of Lesbian Studies)、《重新思考婦女與性別研究》第 2 卷 (Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies Volume 2) 及《女性研究》(Women's Studies) 。在學術生活外，你會在流浪貓聯盟 (Stray Cat Alliance) 看見姚煒詩和貓貓玩耍，或在 ProjectQ 和年輕的酷兒一起聊天，或在陽光下閱讀漫畫和圖像小說。