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About Sharon Yam
I am Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, Affiliate Faculty in Gender and Women's Studies, and Director of Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. My research and interests are closely related to my positionality as a queer diasporic Hongkonger, activist, and woman of color.
My first book, Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship (The Ohio State University Press, winner of the 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book Award), examines the storytelling practices of three racialized and gendered groups in Hong Kong. Set against a backdrop of relentless anti-trans legislation and attacks on bodily autonomy, my second book, Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care (co-authored with Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press), illuminates how language and care practices can be reshaped to promote reproductive and gender justice for trans and nonbinary parents.
Outside of academic publishing, my public writing focuses on social movements, grassroots organizing, and transnational activisms. My work has been published by media outlets such as the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Hong Kong Free Press.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sharon:
November 5, 2025
From the Clinics to the Capitol
Antiabortion stories, images, and policies have primed Americans to embrace attitudes and politics once deemed extreme. Abroad, US antiabortion tactic…
May 19, 2025
Queering Families
Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in incr…
January 13, 2025
The Good Mother Myth
Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy's The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom unpacks and debunks the bad idea…
November 24, 2024
Reproductive Labor and Innovation
In Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscien…
October 12, 2024
Relinquished
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partisa…