In my Illness-Thought-Activism: From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19 first-year seminar, students could make a comic for their Documenting COVID-19 final project. Ashley Chopra created this amazing comic about her experiences over the past year, which included graduating from high school and going to college during a pandemic. Ashley agreed to let me share her comic here.
The Drawing|Teaching|Healing: Graphic Medicine in Action project will bring together comics artists and graphic medicine teachers and scholars to showcase how comics and graphic narratives form can be used in a variety of pedagogical and health care settings. The project will both introduce the field to Stony Brook faculty and students, and also takes the field in new directions, in particular to consider work that focuses on the bodily and psychological traumas of forced migration and refugeeism, racialization and subjection to or under racism, and also the illnesses inflicted on both humans and the nonhuman living world through colonialism, imperialism, and militarism. We think this project will be of interest to faculty and students on both sides of campus, and will serve to generate enlivening conversations about practices of teaching and healing, and intersections between the two.
Logo designed & drawn by Kay Sohini Kumar.