What do we actually mean when we say “mental health”? What do unwellness and wellness actually look and feel like, especially for students? How might we diagnose our own struggles and identify our mental health needs?

“What is Mental Health? A Workshop on Student Un/wellness” is part of a series of workshops and events that focus on mental health in Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, sponsored by the Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP).

Join us on Thursday, October 19, at 12:00pm, for our first QCAP Mental Health Workshop of Fall 2023, facilitated by renowned writer-scholar-teacher Dr. Mimi Khúc. In this interactive discussion, participants will collectively define mental health, diagnose their collective unwellness, and begin exploring what structures of care they need to help them nurture the kind of mental health they want.

Refreshments will be provided!

Masks are encouraged but not required. Visitors to Queens College may be required to present a valid state-issued ID for campus access. See the Queens College website for directions and a campus map

About QCAP

The Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP) aims to support the academic success, mental health, and community engagement of QC’s diverse and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program, QCAP addresses the specific needs of our AAPI students via a range of programs. To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram @qcap.queens.

Speaker Bio

Mimi Khúc, PhD, (she/her) is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the 2023 Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence for FLOURISH: Community-Engaged Arts and Social Wellness at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Managing Editor of The Asian American Literary Review, and an adjunct lecturer in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. Her work includes Open in Emergency, a hybrid book-arts project decolonizing Asian American mental health; the Asian American Tarot, a reimagined deck of tarot cards; and the Open in Emergency Initiative, an ongoing national project developing mental health arts programming with universities and community spaces. Her forthcoming creative-critical, genre-bending book on mental health and a pedagogy of unwellness, dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Duke UP), is a journey 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.