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

“One day we will have a chance to create and critique freely and think only of art, and not of dying.” — It’s been a hard year for Asian Americans. U.S.-China trade tension and racist scapegoating over the Covid pandemic has led to a sharp spike in anti-Asian sentiments in this country. In addition to the microaggressions we have always lived with, there are now more hostile confrontations and violent attacks. Asian…

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. My name is Frankie Huang. I am a writer, illustrator, and strategist based in the Boston area. I’ve written quite a…

My parents groomed me to be a model minority. It kept me from being an ally. — When my high school classmate Regina Lee* was 17, she gave a presentation in U.S. history class on the topic of why affirmative action enables “reverse racism” that punishes Asians for being academically overachieving. I found this out recently after reconnecting with Regina since I became “extremely online” while under…

NOTE: I originally wrote this for Foreign Policy last November, another essay covering the same ground with more scholarly analysis ran first, so I’ve been sitting on this draft for the last 6 months. …

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. — I met my in-laws for the first time just a couple days before I tied the knot with my husband five years ago. I remember being a little nervous about making a good impression, but I’ve been charming the hell out of friends’ parents since I could string a sentence…

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 unimaginable havoc when disturbed, it is a thing that is impossible to hold. …

I really enjoyed Outlaw King for what it is, a beautiful, serious historical drama that aims to deliver a transportive medieval Scotland experience. Every shot is painterly, and so gorgeously lit, be it rich fire light outlining the silhouettes of new lovers, or defuse daylight cast softly over the somber…

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with rom coms, though these days it’s mostly hate. Hate for the insultingly unimaginative, overly engineered potpourri of generic tropes studios spew out each year that try to pass for real stories. My bar isn’t that high, sometimes I just need emotional comfort food…