On March 15, 2021, Drawing| Teaching| Healing: Graphic Medicine in Action hosted its first event. MK Czerwiec, aka Comic Nurse, joined Lisa Diedrich’s class, Illness-Thought-Activism: From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19, to talk about her graphic narrative, Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. The event was supported by a FAHSS interdisciplinary award from Stony Brook University. A recording of the event can be accessed here.