dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss: A book event with Mimi Khúc
April 11, 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Daley Library 1-470
Address
801 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Calendar
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What shifts if we recognize how we are all differentially unwell? What is the university’s role in that unwellness? Khúc’s project, “a plea and a prayer that we all survive,” asks us to move away from individualized, medicalized understandings of wellness to take up understandings that account for the ways racism and ableism structure our unwellness. It asks us to consider “how we can go on living while it hurts,” recognizing the power of community for care and transformation.
Join the Disability Cultural Center for a conversation about Khúc’s new creative-critical,genre-bending book on mental health and a pedagogy of unwellness, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Duke University Press)! We’re so delighted to welcome Mimi Khúc on her book tour, and in our time together, we’ll learn from the wisdoms the project has generated, reserving a generous portion of our time for conversation and questions.
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Co-sponored by UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, Asian American Student Academic Program, Global Asian Studies, and Institute for the Humanities.
Date posted
Mar 14, 2024
Date updated
Mar 14, 2024