03/28/2024
What shifts if we recognize how we are all differentially unwell? What is the universityâs role in that unwellness?
Join the Disability Cultural Center (DCC) in April for two events with Mimi KhĂșc that delve into these questions!
đ (blue heart emoji) dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, A Book Event with Mimi KhĂșc
Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6:00pm
Daley Library 1-470 & On Zoom
Win a free copy of the book! https://go.uic.edu/KhucBookRaffle
KhĂșcâs project, âa plea and a prayer that we all survive,â 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 âhow we can go on living while it hurts,â recognizing the power of community for care and transformation.
đ (blue heart emoji) Surviving Academic Hyperproductivity: A Conversation for Instructors with Mimi KhĂșc
Friday, April 12
In person at WLRC (1700 SSB) & On Zoom
Limited spots: please RSVP at https://go.uic.edu/Surviving
Join the DCC for a conversation with Mimi KhĂșc on un/wellness in the academy and pedagogies of unwellness. This smaller session has faculty and graduate instructors in mind: How do we hold our commitments to generating knowledge, transformative pedagogy, and our own un/wellness in environments centered on productivity rather than care? As KhĂșc asks: âWhat structures need to be in place to shift my relationship to work, to writing, to my needs, to my capacities?â
Suggested reading: Mimi KhĂșc, âWriting While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness,â from Crip Authorship.
Check out the event listings for full details, access information, Covid safety information, and event organizers & co-sponsors!
https://dcc.uic.edu/events/dear-elia-letters-from-the-asian-american-abyss-a-book-event-with-mimi-khuc/
https://dcc.uic.edu/events/surviving-academic-hyperproductivity-a-conversation-for-instructors-with-mimi-khuc/
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UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center, Access Living, Disability Culture Activism Lab, UIC Asian American Resource and Cultural Center - AARCC, UIC Department of Disability and Human Development, UIC Global Asian Studies Program, Gender and Women's Studies at UIC, Institute for the Humanities, UIC
