Quah Ee Ling

Quah Ee Ling is a fire dragon feminist and Singaporean queer woman academic of Chinese-Hokkien and Indonesian-Peranakan heritage. The correct order of her name is surname, Quah first followed by given name, Ee Ling. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sydney and is an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities & Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. Ee Ling developed fire dragon feminism, an anti-colonial, migrant feminist strand to blow flames at coloniality and racial capitalism. She is the author of Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women’s Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2025); Transnational Divorce: Understanding intimacies and inequalities from Singapore (Routledge 2020); Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (Springer 2015). Her writings have also appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies; Gender, Work and Organisation; Journal of Sociology; Australian Feminist Studies; Sexualities; Journal of Intercultural Studies; Sydney Review of Books; Emotion, Space & Society; Journal of Family Issues; Marriage and Family Review.