Graphic Cultures class description with detail from p. 36 of Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir showing the author at a table with a pen and notebook drawing. This is the moment she begins to “record our family history.” Thi Bui’s avatar, table, and notebook are in black and white. Behind her, and overflowing the panel, in light orange watercolor wash, are waves in a rough sea with a rickety boat floating on a wave.

Our goal is to expand and complicate our understanding of the biopsychosocial politics of mental illness, as well as to think broadly and creatively about effective, and even radical, ways to treat mental illness and generate personal and social health and well-being.