Ruwen Chang is a Ph.D. Candidate of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation focuses on reproductive justice, gendered violence, the hierarchy of masculinity, and alternative kin-making in contemporary China. Specifically, her dissertation research examines how definitions of the human subject are produced, reproduced, and contested through policies and discourses around reproduction in China, and how social privileges and exclusions are intertwined with those definitions. She teaches courses on introduction to Gender and Women's Studies and transnational reproductive justice. Her research has been presented at many regional, national, and international conferences.