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Join the DEAR ELIA Teaching Program: Transforming the University through a Pedagogy of Unwellness, launching in Fall 2024.

Welcome to The Abyss, a new tarot card accompanying dear elia to help you recognize your own unwellness.

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, a creative-critical book on mental health with Duke University Press—part scholarship, part memoir, part workbook.

A reimagined deck of tarot cards, featuring original art and text, revealing the hidden contours of our lives.

A selection of published essays.

Radically expanding notions of access to nurture an access culture for intellectual and artistic engagement.

A collectively created tarot card for pandemic times.

A series reimagining self-care at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A box, not a book. An arts and humanities intervention to decolonize mental health.

The curse, reimagined, is justice inside the empire.

Our feeling lives are a critical dimension of what it means to be human but also what it means to be political and ethical.