On September 12, 2023, As part of the IGI series 'China and the World', WGGP hosted Lü Pin, a PhD student in political science at Rutgers University, who talked about "Resilience Amidst Repression: The Chinese Feminist Movement in the Era of Escalating Authoritarianism.” In 2009 in China, Lü Pin and colleagues organized Feminist Voices, a social media platform that aimed to call attention to a lack of women’s rights in their country. Because of growing pressure against the group by the Chinese government, Lü Pin relocated to the U.S. in 2015 and when Feminist Voices was ultimately banned in 2018, she turned her attention to organizing women in the diaspora to create a national feminist network. 

Lü Pin noted that even when the government used its power to jail activists, shut down media sites, and stigmatize the women’s rights movement, “women can transfer inaction into action” by refusing to conform to stereotyped gender roles and rejecting predetermined life choices.