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Frankie Huang

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

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

7 min readAug 4, 2022

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

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Frankie Huang

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…

9 min readNov 24, 2021

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New Year Shopping/买年货

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#StopAsianHate

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

5 min readMay 13, 2021

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

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Frankie Huang

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.

6 min readDec 9, 2020

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A perspective on intergenerational approach to racial justice

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A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-Blackness

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

9 min readJul 31, 2020

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A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-Blackness

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Frankie Huang

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…

5 min readMay 28, 2020

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Image from March 27, 2020

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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.

8 min readApr 15, 2020

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

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Frankie Huang

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…

4 min readApr 11, 2020

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Review: Tigertail — the secret history of the Asian Dad

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Frankie Huang

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…

2 min readOct 26, 2019

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

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Frankie Huang

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…

3 min readOct 22, 2019

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Review: Modern Love, a rom com revival

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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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