May 9Member-onlyenvy during APAHM/AANHPI/AAPI Heritage MonthSocial media envy is tough, especially during May and AAPI/AANHPI Heritage Month. I’m seeing so many people I know or at least have met do things like speak at The White House, go to galas with Asian Oscar winners (TAAF, Gold House’s Gold Gala, APAICS, Met Ball) hang out with…Aapi Heritage Month6 min readAapi Heritage Month6 min read
Apr 21Member-onlyStar Trek Picard Season 3 review from a long time TNG fanIt was great to see this cast back together again. There was some good, tense writing, beautiful visuals, design, lighting, cinematography, music, and brilliant acting that got to see how much range the TNG cast had. There was some questionable writing too, but the chemistry between the cast and the…Star Trek10 min readStar Trek10 min read
Apr 18Member-onlyDavid Choe needs to accept responsibility for his sexism, anti-Blackness, and we need to be normalizing enthusiastic consentI’m still processing the resurfacing of David Choe’s podcast episode with Asa Akira from 2014 where he tells a story he later claimed was fiction of raping a Black massage therapist (Choe, at least in 2014, tried to argue that it wasn’t rape because she eventually “liked” it). I hadn’t…Beef13 min readBeef13 min read
Apr 14Member-onlywhy your whataboutism effort to defend racism is a false equivalent and irrelevantI’ve had thousands of conversations about race and racism, so there are predictable patterns. Often, when people of color express an experience when they faced racism, or talk about how they wish there was better media representation of people of color, there are white folks and people of color dealing…Racism4 min readRacism4 min read
Apr 10Member-onlywhy you should watch Beef on Netflixthis was written prior to learning about David Choe’s horrible rape story from his 2014 podcast episode, which he claims was a fabricated story. I begin to examine that here: David Choe needs to accept responsibility for his sexism, anti-Blackness, and we need to be… 46 year old Korean American from LA who grew up in all that Korean and Black racial tension. Why did he choose to show…christopherhuang.medium.comBeef10 min readBeef10 min read
Apr 1Member-onlyLaw and Order thinks 90% of Asians are human traffickers, enablers, or human trafficking victimsI’ve worked with actor Michael Tow on several photo shoots. He has tremendous range and talent, so when I hear he’s on episodes of Law and Order, I’ll watch. …Law And Order6 min readLaw And Order6 min read
Mar 26Member-onlyfighting against racism, and internalized racism — video embeddedI was asked by a Boston area university to give a talk to Asian American students (mostly) on breaking the cycle of generational trauma. I chose to speak on fighting against racism, and internalized racism, especially for those who grew up in mostly white areas who were surrounded by way…Racism4 min readRacism4 min read
Mar 12Member-onlyEverything Everywhere All At Once’s success partially because it’s more palatable to straight white menI’m very happy for Everything Everywhere All At Once’s success during awards season. Not only did the awards highlight and reward creativity, skill, and complex 3 dimensional roles, they also send a message that Asian American stories, and POC stories in general, are compelling and important. They also send the…Oscars9 min readOscars9 min read
Mar 9Member-onlyTár: 158 minutes of rambling from an angry mediocre white man speaking through a white lesbian conductorTár is the result of a society that rewards mediocre white men with opportunities to create films. Todd Field, writer, director, and producer of the film, comes off cowardly, angry, wanting to mock “BIPOC Pangender” people, ignore race/racism, abuse power in a #MeToo era, and spew out racist ideas without…Tár9 min readTár9 min read
Feb 28Member-onlyBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever–Black people vs evil Indigenous/Mayan people (Ugh. Why)I’m very late to watching Wakanda Forever. I finally watched it this past weekend. It is visually stunning in how it was shot, the design, costumes, etc. with a great soundtrack, cool fight scenes, but I couldn’t take my focus off the frustrating plot that involved trying to create villains…Black Panther9 min readBlack Panther9 min read