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 together in a discussion and workshop engaging 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 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.

Register at http://dartgo.org/workshop. This interactive online workshop is for students, faculty, and staff. Open to the public.

Sponsored by WGSS, East Wheelock House, and Allen House, with support from DCAL, the Sociology Dept, the Disability Employee Resource Network, Faculty Development, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Leslie Center, OPAL, and Student Wellness.