Huang Xueqin


Huang Xueqin, born in 1988, is a #Metoo activist，women's rights activist, independent journalist in China. Before working as an independent journalist, Huang served as an investigative journalist in several newspapers in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.。

Career

Sexual Harassment Report on Chinese Women Journalists

In October 2017, Huang initiated a survey on Chinese women Journalists' experience on sexual harassment and collected 416 answers. On March 7, 2018, based on this survey, a Sexual Harassment Report on Chinese Women Journalists were released. According to the report, over 80% of women journalists had experience of being sexually harassed, 42.2% of women journalists who participated in the survey experienced sexual harassment more than one time.

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Beihang University Incident

In October 2017，sexual harassment survivor,Beihang University Ph.D graduate, Dr. Luo Xixi reported onymously to the university that her former Ph.D advisor, "Changjiang Scholar"Chen Xiaowu had been harassing his graduate students for years. However, the university did not respond to her report. Meanwhile, she saw Huang's survey on Chinese women Journalists' experience on sexual harassment, and sought help from huang. They created an alliance called "Hard Candy" and exposed Chen Xiaowu's behaviors on January 1, 2018 on Weibo and received billions of viewership. January 14, Chen Xiaowu's "Changjiang Scholar" title was revoked. This marked the start of China's #Metoo movement.
Subsequently, Huang started several campaigns to support many #Metoo survivors.

Detention

On June 9, 2019,Huang participated in 12 June 2019 Hong Kong protest to protest against the 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill, and wrote about her experience on Matters。On June 11, she posted on her social media and stated that Guangzhou police harassed her because of her writing the article about Hong Kong Protestors. She said her parants were "terrified".Subsequently in October 2019, Guangzhou police arrested her in the name of "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble". On January 17, 2020, Huang was released on bail.

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