Nationality Chinese | ||
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Occupation Women's rights activist Education | ||
Xiao Meili (born 1989) is a Chinese women's rights activist. She presently resides in Beijing, China.
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Activism
Some of Xiao's most notable campaigns include her 2,000 km walk from Beijing to Guangzhou to raise awareness of sexual abuse in 2014, and organizing a competition on Sina Weibo for the best photo of a woman's unshaven armpit to challenge stereotypical views of female beauty in 2015. Xiao has stated that her activism work is funded from online personal donations.
Xiao is also known for creating the "bloody wedding dress" meme in China to protest domestic violence in 2012, and has been featured in a Chinese adaptation of The Vagina Monologues. Xiao also spoke out against the Chinese government's arrest of five women's rights activists just days before International Women's Day in 2015. The group of arrested women's rights activists are coined by Chinese media as the "Feminist Five".
Xiao cites Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as a strong influence in shaping her activist work.
Biography
Xiao was born in the Sichuan Province in 1989. She attended the Communication University of China in Beijing. Before her activism work, Xiao previously ran an online store selling clothes on Taobao.com., one of China's online trading platforms.