Wanning Chen moved from Taiwan to Beijing in 2009 to work for an environmental organization, and while she was there, she volunteered at the Beijing Queer Center. Upon her return to Taiwan in 2014, she began volunteering at the Taiwan Tongzhi LGBTQ+ Hotline Association. She contributed the chapter "Yun-fan: Singing the Multiplicity of Queer Life" to the oral history 阿媽的女朋友：彩虹熟女的多彩青春 (Grandma's Girlfriends: The Splendid Youth of Elder Lesbians) compiled by the Taiwan Tongzhi LGBTQ+ Hotline Association in 2020.