Publications

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Yuen, S.M. 2018. “Mediated masculinities—Negotiating the ‘normal’ in the Japanese Female-to-Male trans magazine Laph,” in Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed), The Handbook of Japanese Media, pp. 180-199. London and New York: Routledge 

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• Yuen, S.M. 2021. “From Marginality to Possibility: Doing Transgender Studies in Japanese Studies.” New Voices in Japanese Studies 13: 1-18.
• Yuen, S.M. 2020. “Unqueer Queers—Drinking Parties and Negotiations of Cultural Citizenship by Female-to-Male Transpeople in Japan”, Asian Anthropology (published online 23 Apr 2020)
• Aoyagi, H. and Yuen, S.M. 2016. “When Erotic Meets Cute: Erokawa and the Public Expression of Female Sexuality in Contemporary Japan,” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 2, 1: 97-110. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2014. “From men to 'boys'—The cooking danshi in Japanese mass media,” Women's Studies International Forum 44: 220-227. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2011. “Last Friends, Beyond Friends—Articulating non-normative gender and sexuality on mainstream Japanese TV,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 12, 3: 383-400. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2011. “Kusanagi Tsuyoshi X Chonangang—Transcending Japanese/Korean Ethnic Boundaries in Japanese Popular Culture,” Asian Studies Review 35: 1-20. 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Yuen, S.M. 2021. “Guyz with a Secret: Towards an Alternative Queer Modernity.” Paper presented at Media and Mediation in East Asia: Assemblages and Global Flows (2021 Summer Institute for East Asian Studies), University of Pittsburgh, Jun 2-4, 2021.
• Yuen, S.M. 2021. “Doing Transgender Studies in Japanese Studies.” Paper presented at Beyond Japanese Studies Symposium: Challenges, Opportunities and COVID-19, Japan Foundation Sydney & University of New England (Online), Feb 18-19, 2021.
• Yuen, S.M. 2018. “Imagining and Navigating Queer Capital Tokyo: Gender Transition and Rural-Urban Migration in Contemporary Japan”. Paper presented at the 22ndBiennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3-5 July 2018.
• Yuen, S.M. 2018. “Agents of One’s Body: Transgender Medical Travel Facilitators in Contemporary Japan”. Paper presented at Gender/Sexuality in Motion: Migrants Searching One’s Own Place in the Asia-Pacific Conference, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, February 10, 2018. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2017. “Politics of Trans Mobility—Japanese Female-to-Male Transgender Medical Travellers in Thailand”. Paper presented at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2017, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea, July 28-30, 2017. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2017. “Intersections of gender and geographical border-crossings—the case of Female-to-Male transpeople in Japan”. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference 2017, Toronto, Canada, March 16-19, 2017.
• Yuen, S.M. 2016. “Drinking and partying…or something more? Negotiations of belonging in the contemporary FTM scene in Japan.” Paper presented at Asian Studies Conference Japan 2016, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2-3, 2016.
• Yuen, S.M. 2016. “Consuming trans in Japan: Beyond the binary of commodified vs. politicized identities.” Paper presented at AAS-in-Asia Conference 2016: Horizons of Hope,Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, June 24-27, 2016.
• Yuen, S.M. 2015. “A “men’s magazine for FTM”—Negotiating everyday masculinity in the Japanese FTM zine Laph.” Paper presented at The Ninth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, Australia, July 5-10, 2015.
• Yuen, S.M. 2015. “‘A light of salvation’? Human rights, Sexual diversity and the ‘Exceptional Treatment Law’ in early twenty-first century Japan.” Paper presented at Cultural Typhoon 2015: Re:Public, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, June 13-14, 2015. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2014. “Just a drinking party? The Japanese FTM scene and cultural citizenship.” Paper presented at Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, November 6-7, 2014. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2014. “‘Tayō na sei to ikiteiru’—Sexual ‘diversity’ in contemporary Japan.” Paper presented at Cultural Typhoon 2014: Convivial, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan,June 28-29, 2014.  
• Yuen, S.M. 2013. “‘We are all different, there are no differences'—The discourse of sexual diversity in contemporary Japan.” Paper presented at Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Graduate Conference: Cultural Studies, Transcending Borders—Shifting Perspectives in Asia, National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 1-2, 2013. 
• Yuen, S.M.​ 2013. “Masculinity without 'men': Performing female masculinity in Japanese FTM zines.” Paper presented at The Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars: The East-West Crossroads, The Venetian Macau, Macau, June 24-27, 2013. 
• Yuen, S.M.​ 2012. “Like (a) Boy: Representations of Female Masculinity in Japanese FTM zines.” Paper presented at Knowing Asia: Asian Studies in an Asian Century: 19thBiennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 11-13, 2012. 
• Yuen, S.M.​ 2011. “From men to ‘boys’—The cooking danshiin Japanese mass media.” Paper presented at International Workshop on Masculinities in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 4-5, 2011. 
• Yuen, S.M.​ 2008. "A Man Who Is Not A Man—IKKO and Transgender Identities.” Paper presented at The EighthInternational Symposium onJapanese Language Education and Japanese Studies: Multiculturalism and Japanese Language Education/ Japanese Studies in Asia and Oceania, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 8-9, 2008.
• Yuen, S.M.​ 2007. “The Performance of gender in Japanese pop-idol concerts—Multiple Faces of Hamasaki Ayumi.” Paper presented at 10thAnnual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, MA, USA, March 9-11, 2007. 

PAPERS FOR SEMINAR, PUBLIC TALK, LECTURE

• Yuen, S.M. 2018. “Gendai nihon ni okeru FTM komyuniti de no fiirudo wāku (Researching Female-to-Male [FTM] Transpeople in Japan).” International Christian University, Japan, February 7, 2018. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2017. Constructing and Consuming FTM Transgender Masculinity in Contemporary Japan. Meiji Gakuin University, Japan, October 5, 2017.  
• Yuen, S.M. 2017. “Fiirudo wāku(Doing Fieldwork).” Kokushikan University, Japan, May 31, 2017. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2015. Negotiating Citizenship through Media Production: Queer’in Japanese Media. University of Melbourne, Australia, May 12, 2015. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2013. Japan in/and Singapore. Shukutoku University, Japan, December 3, 2013. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2013. Multiculturalism in Singapore. Shukutoku University, Japan, December 3, 2013. 
• Yuen, S.M. 2010. What is ‘Japanese Culture’?Nanyang Girls’ High School Sabbatical 2010, Nanyang Girls’ High School, Singapore, May 21, 2010. 

OTHERS

•  Yuen, S.M. 2020. “Cultural Citizenship,” in Jason G. Karlin, Patrick W. Galbraith, and Shunsuke Nozawa (eds), Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo. https://jmpc-utokyo.com/keyword/cultural-citizenship/