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‘Nope’, ‘Princess Mononoke’, and monster movies that put us in our place

VERY SPOILERY thoughts on Nope from an environmentalist POV originally published at…

Aug 4, 2022

‘Nope’, ‘Princess Mononoke’, and monster movies that put us in our place

Aug 4, 2022

New Year Shopping/买年货

Translator’s note: My dad wrote this short story back in the early 80s, based on a real trampling incident during the Chinese Cultural…

Nov 24, 2021

New Year Shopping/买年货

Nov 24, 2021

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#StopAsianHate

Not All AAPI Art Is #AsianExcellence. I Can Say That and Still Be an Ally.

May 13, 2021

Not All AAPI Art Is #AsianExcellence. I Can Say That and Still Be an Ally.

May 13, 2021

A perspective on intergenerational approach to racial justice

This is a 10 minute talk I gave as part of a My Life, My Stories / Encore.org digital event on how we can address racial justice in 2021.

Dec 9, 2020

A perspective on intergenerational approach to racial justice

Dec 9, 2020

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ZORA

A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-Blackness

My parents groomed me to be a model minority. It kept me from being an ally.

Jul 31, 2020

A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-Blackness

Jul 31, 2020

From November 2019: On the Fetishization of Nonviolence in Hong Kong

NOTE: I originally wrote this for Foreign Policy last November, another essay covering the same ground with more scholarly analysis ran…

May 28, 2020

Image from March 27, 2020

May 28, 2020

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ZORA

In Lockdown With My White In-Laws

Frankie Huang evacuated Shanghai and moved to the U.S. to live with her husband’s New England parents. Here’s how it’s going.

Apr 15, 2020

A photo of an Asian woman in the kitchen with her white husband and father-in-law.

Apr 15, 2020

Review: Tigertail — the secret history of the Asian Dad

虎尾 “tiger tail”, what an evocative name. In Chinese puns, the tiger tail refers to an innocuous thing that can be the catalyst to…

Apr 11, 2020

Review: Tigertail — the secret history of the Asian Dad

Apr 11, 2020

REVIEW: OUTLAW KING, A SOLID WAR FILM (IN THAT WAR IS TERRIBLE)

I really enjoyed Outlaw King for what it is, a beautiful, serious historical drama that aims to deliver a transportive medieval Scotland…

Oct 26, 2019

REVIEW: OUTLAW KING, A SOLID WAR FILM (IN THAT WAR IS TERRIBLE)

Oct 26, 2019

Review: Modern Love, a rom com revival

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with rom coms, though these days it’s mostly hate. Hate for the insultingly unimaginative, overly…

Oct 22, 2019

Review: Modern Love, a rom com revival

Oct 22, 2019

Frankie Huang

Frankie Huang

Beijinger American changeling, Renaissance woman, feminist, storyteller, translator, strategist, illustrator. Encore Public Voices Fellow 2020 She/her

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