Friday, January 27, 2017

The Asian American Literary Review have released a special issue on Asian American mental health.  "Open in Emergency" is a creative and interactive kit that features poetry, prose, artwork and photography from Asian American voices related to mental health. 



"Guest-edited by Mimi Khuc...this special issue works to reimagine what counts as unwellness and wellness in our communities through a dynamic mix of writing, visual art, and interactive mini-projects. It includes:
  • a deck of tarot cards— featuring original art and text that work to reveal the hidden contours of our Asian American emotional,
    psychic, and spiritual lives;
  • a foldout testimonial tapestry— a collectively woven tapestry of written and visual testimonials, a process-oriented art piece that reimagines community care & healing.
  • a “hacked” mock DSM: Asian American Edition— a new catalog of “definitions”/reflections, with alternate understandings of un/wellness and critiques of Psychology as field, discourse, and industry,
    featuring fiction and essays on neuro-diversity and race; a queer mixed race WOC self-care package; a play excerpt examining conceptions of mental illness as demonic possession in Lao communities; and poetry on the lasting psychic rupture of Partition, among many other pieces.
  • a “treated” pamphlet on postpartum depression— a redaction/erasure/annotation of existing postpartum depression info-literature that centers lived mother of color experience;
  • a stack of daughter-to-mother letters— handwritten letters that rethink intergenerational intimacies
    and violences, Asian American daughterhood and motherhood."
For more information regarding this special issue,
http://aalr.binghamton.edu/special-issue-on-asian-american-mental-health/?mc_cid=b875427629&mc_eid=412ab65802

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