Frankie Huang·Aug 4, 2022‘Nope’, ‘Princess Mononoke’, and monster movies that put us in our placeVERY SPOILERY thoughts on Nope from an environmentalist POV originally published at…
Frankie Huang·Nov 24, 2021New 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…
In#StopAsianHatebyFrankie Huang·May 13, 2021Not All AAPI Art Is #AsianExcellence. I Can Say That and Still Be an Ally.A response icon1A response icon1
Frankie Huang·Dec 9, 2020A 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.
InZORAbyFrankie Huang·Jul 31, 2020A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-BlacknessMy parents groomed me to be a model minority. It kept me from being an ally.A response icon14A response icon14
Frankie Huang·May 28, 2020From 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…
InZORAbyFrankie Huang·Apr 15, 2020In 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.A response icon27A response icon27
Frankie Huang·Apr 11, 2020Review: 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…
Frankie Huang·Oct 26, 2019REVIEW: 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…
Frankie Huang·Oct 22, 2019Review: 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…