Touring the Abyss with dear elia: Unwellness and Care in the University

Touring the Abyss with dear elia: Unwellness and Care in the University

Presented by the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

The university makes us unwell. Join for a discussion with Dr. Mimi Khúc on her new book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, a hybrid scholarly-arts project that traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis at its many intersections with the university and through that asks readers to engage their own unwellness. In this project, Khúc introduces a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell, an offering set to revolutionize the fields of mental health, Asian American studies, disability studies, and higher ed more broadly. Join to explore what a pedagogy of unwellness reveals for our university community.