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This Spring, join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of writer and scholar Mimi Khúc’s, Dear Elia, “a creative-critical book exploring mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness: the recognition that we are all differentially unwell.” Mimi will be joined by the effervescent & Jess X. Snow and Pyaari Azaadi.

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Mimi Khúc is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is an adjunct lecturer in disability studies at Georgetown University and co-editor of The Asian American Literary Review. 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.

Jess X. Snow is a non-binary filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, poet. They are recent graduate of the directing MFA program at NYU. Recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, their body of work reimagines queer asian diaspora, kinship across cultures and species, mental health, and abolitionist futures.

Pyaari Azaadi, formerly known as J. Abichandani (she/her; b. 1969, Bombay, India) immigrated to the US in 1984. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Abichandani has continued to intertwine studio and social practice, art and activism, creating transformative work with Queer, BIPoC communities in New York for three decades. She founded the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) in New York (1997) and London (2004). She was awarded grants by the FST Studio Projects fund and the Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2021 and NYFA fellowship in Sculpture in 2023

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ACCESSIBILITY & SAFETY

The event will be live streamed with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in-person. For those joining us in our space, we are located on the 6th floor, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our space. To protect our friends with chemical sensitivities, AAWW is a fragrance-free space. Masks are required for all attendees; if you forget yours, one will be provided for you. We have three commercial grade air purifiers in the space, and a quiet room in the back should you need some space from the crowd. With the current surge of COVID cases, we highly encourage you to take a test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior to the event, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to dmanibo@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests, ADA accessible bathrooms, chairs with added back support, and beyond. This space is for YOU!