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Creative Writing Workshop
Letters to our Inner Child
performer name
MCC Lounge
In this workshop, participants come together to write to their younger selves. Participants are asked to think of one moment in their childhoods in which they needed help, and they guide themselves through a specific moment of conflict. By visiting our past, this writing workshop aims at naming aspects of our lives in which we fall short on either receiving or accepting care, and how we can better be there for one another. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous artist and community organizer from Oaxaca, Mexico. They write for Everyday Feminism on issues of Afro-Latinidad, undocumented immigration, and queer and trans activism.
Cup of Culture
Love Arcadia
MCC Theater
Rather than continuing his education, Jake wants to pursue what he believes will make him happy: taking over his family’s bubble tea shop, Tea Arcadia. That is until, he meets a young woman named Joanna Lee. She arrives at his hometown Arcadia, California, to buy the shopping center and start a new development project, putting the shop and all other tenants out of business. The film illustrates the many sides of love, family, and happiness. (English, 2015, 97 min)
Taiwanese American Student Association (TASA) will sell boba drinks prior to the film screening.
Watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crwitim6ARM
Creative Writing Workshop
Open in Emergency: Tarot Cards & Mental Health
MCC Lounge
Mimi Khúc is a PhD in Religious Studies from UCSB and a Vietnamese American scholar, teacher, and writer on race and religion, queer of color politics, mental health, and Asian American motherhood. She has edited a special issue of the Asian American Literary Review called Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Health which approaches mental health issues in the Asian American community using art and literature. The issue re-imagines wellness practices, including tarot cards remade by Asian American artists and writers into anti-racist and immigration-centric themes, and letters by daughters to their mothers. Inspired by these elements, participants will be invited to read their own futures and name the forces shaping their lives, as well as write letters to their mothers that they have always needed to write.
Register online: bit.ly/mcc-tarotcards
Race Matters Series
Hacking the DSM: An Asian American Mental Health Intervention (Mimi Khúc)
MCC Lounge
Mimi Khúc, assistant professor of Asian American Studies at University of Maryland, will present research that has culminated in her editing of a special issue of the Asian American Literary Review. The issue explores new ways of discussing mental health: not merely as an individual pathology or condition, but as a topic contextualized within structures of violence such as rape, misogyny, and colonialism. Her talk will be preceded by readings of original work and short pieces from the issue by students from Playsia.
Co-presented by the Department of Asian American Studies
