To Write in Unwellness
Documenting A/P/A Voices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Crystal Baik (corresponding author), Diane Wong (0000-0003-3339-3544), D S Wong, Vivian Truong (0000-0002-0712-575X), Minju Bae (0000-0002-4877-975X), Preeti Sharma (0000-0001-5986-2754), Lena Sze, Amita Manghnani, Mi Hyun Yoon |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 493-515 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2022.0038 |
| OpenAlex | W4308898562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this collectively written essay, we write as volunteers with A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project to share and hold space for this archive's stories, images, sounds, and silences. A/P/A Voices first emerged in Spring 2020 when a group of public-facing scholars, activists, and cultural workers converging at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU recognized the critical need to document the myriad experiences of Asian Americans, Asian immigrants, and Pacific Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past year and a half, A/P/A Voices volunteers have conducted over seventy-five oral histories with community organizers, mutual aid workers, healthcare workers, and cultural workers across the country, and over seventy-five artifacts (artwork, videos, other ephemera) have been donated by participants. Through a collective form of writing we describe as dwelling in unwellness , we consider how the A/P/A Voices project and its improvised form of curation—informed by interruption, relational co-laboring, listening, and slowness—is necessitated by prolonged crisis. We ourselves are not outside of the pandemic; rather, as scholars, cultural workers, activists, and caregivers who navigate different levels of precarity, we are entangled within and beyond its folds. Thus, our writing with , rather than about , this project begins with the following questions: How do we connect our experiences of crisis to A/P/A Voices and to one another? How is our work enacted in solidarity with other communities of color devastated by racism and carceral violence, as well as disproportionate economic violence and the uneven effects of an ongoing public health crisis? What does it mean to engage a memory project from a place of unwellness
Art history · Asian americans · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Ephemera · Ethnic group · Immigration · Media studies · Pacific islanders · Pandemic · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |