Visioning with Emergency

Open In Emergency: Differential Unwellness Within UCI Student Communities
A Project by the UCI Center for Medical Humanities

Join us for a year-long series of events exploring mental health and unwellness within student communities at UCI and beyond. Using Open In Emergency: A Mental Health Project (OIE), a multi-media, humanities, arts, and activist-based kit designed to explore dimensions of Asian American mental health, to the UCI student community. these occasions bring students together with scholars, artists, writers, and activists, and marshals these interactions to build the capacity for discerning mental unwellness in students’ local context.

Visioning with Emergency
November 19 at 4 pm PST/7 pm EST

Simi Kang's workshop will help us rethink the use of federal emergency declarations, which are typically used to support the needs of privileged and powerful folks and to further harm structurally marginalized communities. As a group, we will reject the primacy of the powers that be, instead centering our communities', our chosen kin's, and our own expertise. Together, we will vision with disaster. Rather than expecting a utopia "beyond" emergency, we will collaborate to identify concrete, actionable steps that any of us might take to feel agentive in times of chaos.

Through this visioning work, my goal is for you to find space to ground into the feelings of agency and decision-making and to give you some tools to think with and in impossible times.

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Simi Kang is a Sikh American community advocate, educator, artist, and scholar. Dr. Kang centers Asian American collaborative resistance as a site for imagining environmentally and economically just futures. She is currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in UC Santa Barbara's Asian American Studies Department. Her visual and written work has appeared in The Asian American Literary Review, Kartika Review, Hyphen Magazine, Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, Gravy, and Gastronomica.