Love Letters from the
Chronically Ill-Remembered

The purpose of "Love Letters from the Chronically Ill-Remembered" (L2CR) is to help people with chronic pain/illness build self-love and expand it into communal love, creating a network of support, resources, and comfort in an existence that is socially, systemically, and biologically difficult. As a multidisciplinary multimedia project, it will approach the interconnections of social-community psychology, creative expression, digital humanities, disability models, and theoretical frameworks. With these contexts, we'll address themes such as disability culture, social justice, community, identity, health/bodies, and relationships.

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L2CR will begin as a crowdsourced digital archive where activist volunteers and community members are invited to contribute short stories, essays, poems, photographs, and other creative mediums relating to their chronic pain or illness. In the research aspect, we will invite community members to engage as participant-researchers, assistant editors, outreach assistants, or another role based on the project team’s capacity, needs, and existing expertise.

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As this project was developed only recently, more information about the timeline, production process, and engagement opportunities, will be announced soon.