She is the founding Executive Director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP),[1] and an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of San Francisco.
At the age of 23, she moved to San Francisco to escape persecution by the Singaporean government for her work as a young lesbian artist-activist.
Around the same time, Lim became actively involved in Singapore's feminist organization, Association of Women for Action and Research.
Shortly after the dinner, the Singapore government arrested Lim's co-author during Operation Spectrum, where sixteen people of a mix of Catholic lay workers, social workers, overseas-educated graduates, theatre practitioners and professionals[3] were arrested and detained without trial under Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) for their alleged involvement in a Marxist conspiracy.
[4] Fearing persecution for her work, Lim left Singapore for New York City, USA in 1987 and eventually made her way to San Francisco, California.
[7] In 2000, Lim founded the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) in San Francisco, "with the belief that a community of artist-activist leaders could change the face of filmmaking and the social justice movement."