Xiaopei (she) is anb indie film director and the Executive Director of Pink Space, a Non-Governmental
Organization. When Xiaopei was a teenager, she was a shepherd in the hills. After graduating from
university, she joined the Chinese Mountaineering Team and hit the Himalayas. From the 1990s, she devoted herself to the feminist and lesbian movement in China, and took part in the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Later she went to the UK to study sexuality and cultural studies. After graduating with a Ph.D. she returned to China to set up Pink Space, a project using films to represent invisibilised desires and lives.