‘Nope’, ‘Princess Mononoke’, and monster movies that put us in our placeVERY SPOILERY thoughts on Nope from an environmentalist POV originally published at…Aug 4, 2022Aug 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, 2021Nov 24, 2021
Published in#StopAsianHateNot All AAPI Art Is #AsianExcellence. I Can Say That and Still Be an Ally.May 13, 20211May 13, 20211
A perspective on intergenerational approach to racial justiceThis 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, 2020Dec 9, 2020
Published inZORAA Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-BlacknessMy parents groomed me to be a model minority. It kept me from being an ally.Jul 31, 202016Jul 31, 202016
From November 2019: On the Fetishization of Nonviolence in Hong KongNOTE: I originally wrote this for Foreign Policy last November, another essay covering the same ground with more scholarly analysis ran…May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
Published inZORAIn Lockdown With My White In-LawsFrankie 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, 202027Apr 15, 202027
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, 2020Apr 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, 2019Oct 26, 2019
Review: Modern Love, a rom com revivalI’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, 2019Oct 22, 2019