Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Touring the Abyss” here

We in the university live and work in a machine that makes us unwell while not allowing us to be unwell and punishes us for being unwell and asks us to punish others for being unwell so that we can prove we are well.

Dr. Mimi Khúc invites us to confront unwellness in the university together in a discussion of her book, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, which traces the contemporary mental health crisis and its intersection with "compulsory wellness," the pressure to pretend we are always ok.

In response, Dr. Khúc offers a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell and thus all in need of radical care. Join us to explore what a pedagogy of unwellness reveals for our university community and how we might begin to build the structures of care that we need.

Dr. Mimi Khúc is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the creator of the acclaimed mental health projects Open in Emergency and the Asian American Tarot, and the author of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, a deep dive into the depths of Asian American unwellness at the intersections of ableism, model minoritization, and the university, and an exploration of new approaches to building collective care. She is currently coping with the terror of these times by collecting cats.