Academic Publications

Yeung, H. (Forthcoming). M is for Messy, for Mother and Methodologies: Challenges of Doing Feminist Participatory Action Research with Asian Migrant Mother-Daughters in Digital Spaces. In Deboeck, L., Harb, S., & Coelho, A. C. (Eds.), Maternal Subjectivities. Demeter Press.

Yeung, H. & K. Perez (Forthcoming). Famalao’an/Babae: Socially Engaged Art, Feminist Pedagogy and Shifting Women’s Storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino Students through Zine-making in Guåhan. In A. Duffy, S. Johnson & T. Neumann (Eds.), Syndemic Motherhood: American Epidemics through Engaged and Applied Arts.

 Yeung, H. & D. N. Bowatte (Forthcoming). Digital Spaces as Feminist Dissent. In M. Camo, & R. García-Periago (Eds.), Women, “Failure” and Academia Post-2020, a Kick Ass Project.

Yeung, H. & T. Matelau (2023). Women of Colour in Communication Studies: Informal Feminist Mentoring, Building Peer Support Networks and Identity Navigation through Creative Collaboration. In J. Pauly, L.H. Hernández, & S. Munz (Eds.), Feminist Mentoring in Academia. Lexington Books.

Yeung, H. (2022). “Nah you’re my sisters for real!”: Utilising Instagram and mobile phones to facilitate feminist conversations with Asian migrant women in Aotearoa. In C. Burkholder, F. Aladejebi, & J. Schwab-Cartas (Eds.), Facilitating community research for social change: Case studies in qualitative, arts-based and visual research (pp. 95-111). Routledge.

Yeung, H. (2021). Recipes of resistance: Utilising zines to reclaim the kitchen as a feminist space for Asian migrant women. Zines, 2(1), 90-99. http://strandflat.fr/

Yeung, H. (2018). East Asian Erotic Cinema: A Departure from the “Powerful Phallus”? Interesting Journal, 8, 168-179.

Research Projects

2021 – Present | My Mama Says. Feminist Approaches to Addressing Mother-Daughter Relationships with Asian Migrant Women through Digital Platforms [Doctoral Thesis]. School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand https://www.instagram.com/mamasays.project/

2019 – 2021 | Asian Feminist Project Aotearoa. Utilising Instagram and Mobile Phones to Facilitate Feminist Conversations with Asian Migrant Women in Aotearoa [Master’s Thesis]. School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Public Scholarship

Yeung H. (2025). Ephemeral Connections: A DIY Guide to Mutual Care, Love and Zine-making with Communities of Colour. Past Present Futures: A Decade of Asian Aotearoa Arts. https://www.aaah.org.nz/ [Essay]

Yeung H. (2024). Object to be Restored: On Anarchival and Seven Years of Migrant Zine Collective. Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì 2024. https://www.aaah.org.nz/ [Zine] 

Yeung H. (2023). Letters to Our Daughters. Womenclan. https://www.womenclan.com/ [Essay]

Yeung, H. (2022) Relearning How to Breathe: Notes On Being A 'Bad' Survivor. Pantograph Punch. https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/relearning-how-to-breathe [Essay]

Yeung, H. (2021). Zine Philosophy: Migrant Zine Collective. Broken Pencil. https://brokenpencil.com/zine-philosophy/zine-philosophy-migrant-zine-collective/ [Essay]

 Yeung, H. (2021, March 23). “Despite the distance, I felt the heaviness, grief and fear reverberate.”. Ensemble Magazine. https://www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz/articles/stop-asian-hate

Yeung, H. (2020, February). All that we take with us. Starling. https://www.starlingmag.com/issue-9/helen-yeung [Essay]

Yeung, H. (2019, November 22). Timid? As if! Asian New Zealand women on racism and resistance. The Spinoff. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-11-2019/timid-as-if-asian-new-zealand-women-on-racism-and-resistance/ [Article]

Yeung, H. (2018, November 14). Radical, Raw and Real: Asian Diaspora Activism through Zine-making. Hainamana: Asian New Zealand Art & Culture. http://www.hainamana.com/radical-raw-and-real-asian-diaspora-activism-through-zine-making/ [Essay]

Media Features

Upcoming | Helen Yeung. Zines. NZ: Punk to Present [Book].

Apr, 2024 | Helen Yeung. Satellites: Archive. https://www.satellites.co.nz/archive/people/helen-yeung

Nov 17, 2021 | PORTRAITS Asian Artists in Aotearoa: Helen Yeung. Oryza. https://www.oryza.nz/Helen-Yeung

Oct 19, 2021 | Zine-making, Identity and Queer Asian Representation. Storyo. https://www.storyo.co.nz/stories/helen-yeung

Sep 30, 2020 | Satire, Political Art and Challenging the Status Quo [TV series episode]. In Corazon Miller (Producer), Newshub Nation. Three. https://www.facebook.com/NewshubNationNZ/posts/10158819798978535

Jun 17, 2020 | Taking zines back to their activist roots with Migrant Zine Collective. By Dan Ahwa, Viva. https://www.viva.co.nz/article/culture-travel/migrant-zine-collective/

Dec 2020 | Helen Yeung: Creativity, community, academia & activism. By Jenna Wee, Asian in Aotearoa [Audio podcast episode]. https://www.asianinaotearoa.com/5-helen-yeung

Zines and Independent Publications

2022 | Graphic designer and curator for Kulo’: A Zine on Decolonisation and CHamoru Self-Determination, in collaboration with Independent Guåhan. Guam, US. https://independentguahan.org/kulo-zine/

2021 | Contributor in Zou Mat Je (做乜嘢) [Illustrations]. Perth, Australia. https://zoumatje.com/Zou-Mat-Je-Issue-One-Helen-Yeung

June 2021 | Curator and illustrator for Open Homes: Social Solidarity zine, in collaboration with Open Homes. Auckland, New Zealand. https://www.instagram.com/openhomesnz/

May 2019 | Contributor in Chicken Soup for the Millennial Soul on Breakups by Vanessa Superhowlll [Illustrations]. Auckland, New Zealand.

2018 | Guest editor and curator for Mellow Yellow Aotearoa #9: Legends, myths and hidden stories. Auckland, New Zealand. http://mellowyellow-aotearoa.blogspot.com/

2017 | Guest editor and curator for Mellow Yellow Aotearoa #8: Gender and Memories of Migration. Auckland, New Zealand. http://mellowyellow-aotearoa.blogspot.com/