[1] At the age of 6, Huang began participating in traditional funeral ceremonies known as Qian Wang Ge Zhen (the Soul-guiding Singing Array) with her mother.
Huang dropped out of school in the third grade and joined her mother in performing funeral rituals across Taiwan to make a living.
[2] In 1998, Taiwanese filmmaker Yang Li-zhou made a documentary about young girls involved in funeral processions, with the 20-year-old Huang as one of the subjects.
She took a documentary filmmaking course at the New Taipei City Luzhou Community University and became actively involved in social movements.
[3] During her involvement in social activism, Huang created two short documentaries about foreign laborers, Hospital Wing 8 East and Uchan Is Going Home (Chinese: 烏將要回家).