Thu 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM ET (local time loading)
Jan 15 - Mar 19, 2026
10 sessions, 1 hour 15 minutes each
Live
All with an interest are welcome!
An Asian American studies teach-in for the crumbling sinkhole of 2026 America. With poems. Join lifelong Asian Americanist scholars learning with and from students new to the field alongside leading Asian American poets and writers. Together we’ll weigh the possibilities–and responsibilities–of Asian American studies and Asian American arts right now. With sessions on genocide in Gaza; the sweeping purges of all things DEI and QTNB; the abyss of the Asian American mental health crisis; the radical potentials of friendship and grief. Throughout will be a commitment to DIY access culture and disability justice we'll wear like garbage bags into a monsoon. Course texts will include “hijacked” poems by George Abraham; a class-sourced FAQ on dealing with EYE-CE; an “intimate lecture” by newly minted US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze; queer eco-justice stickers and film shorts by Jess X. Snow; the spring 2024 student encampments as epic poems. Course learning objectives will include fun, vulnerability, trust-building, lip-biting hope, and–cue grandiose music–the groaning sounds of doors opening inside us.
- Participants receive readings via Google Drive. All class sessions will be held and recorded on Zoom until 1 month after the course's end.
- lawrence-minh bùi davis
lawrence-minh bùi davis is a refugee diaspore, curator, writer, and troublemaker who lives as a guest on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway Nation. A co-founder of the arts anti-profit AALR (2009), the Asian American Literature Festival (2017), and the Center for Refugee Poetics (2018), he believes in stewardship of literature as social and ethical ecosystem. As far as anyone knows, he was the first curator of viet descent at the World’s Largest Museum and Research Complex, as well as the first to be exiled from it. Sometimes you can see new things by the light of his neurodivergence.
- Mimi Khúc
Mimi Khúc, PhD, is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the Co-Editor of The Asian American Literary Review and an adjunct professor in Asian American studies and disability studies. Her work includes Open in Emergency, the Asian American Tarot, and dear elia: letters from the Asian American Abyss. She loves cats more than you can probably imagine.