Healing, Reclamation, and Futurities
About the Module
You've now completed four modules examining South Asian masculinities from multiple angles:
- Module 1: Theoretical foundations and the need for this field
- Module 2: Historical mechanisms of colonial dismantling
- Module 3: Contemporary manifestations and psychological costs
- Module 4: Agency, resistance, and cultural production
This module focuses on four interconnected areas:
- Decolonizing mental health with culturally grounded approaches
- Navigating economic realities beyond the model minority myth
- Reclaiming narrative control through media and self-definition
- Building liberatory masculinities in community and practice
By the end of this module, you'll have concrete frameworks for personal healing, community transformation, and collective liberation.
🤌 Module Taxonomy
🧠 Remember
Students will recall key concepts such as social determinants of health, the bamboo ceiling, liberatory masculinity, and model minority myth. They will also remember therapeutic terms like somatic experiencing, alexithymia, and mindfulness practices relevant to South Asian men.
📜 Comprehension
Learners will explain decolonial approaches to mental health, summarize the economic realities beyond the model minority myth, and describe strategies for reclaiming narrative control through media. They will also articulate what constitutes culturally competent care and authentic representation.
⚙️ Apply
Students will apply mental health frameworks to create personal wellness plans, use economic analysis tools to assess professional barriers, and implement media literacy strategies to critique and redesign representations. They will also practice somatic and emotional regulation techniques.
🔮 Analysis
Learners will analyze the structural and social determinants of mental distress, deconstruct the bamboo ceiling and its impact on career progression, and examine media representations for stereotypes and authenticity. They will also evaluate how historical trauma manifests in contemporary economic and professional challenges.
🕊️ Evaluation
Students will evaluate the effectiveness of different mental health interventions for South Asian men, assess economic strategies for individual and collective advancement, and critique media portrayals for authenticity vs. respectability politics. They will also judge the viability of proposed visions for liberatory masculinities.
🔩 Create
Learners will design personal mental health and healing plans, develop economic justice strategies or professional advancement plans, create original media content or intervention proposals, and craft personal manifestos for liberatory masculinity. They will synthesize course concepts to propose community-based solutions and future visions.
🎙️ Podclass
View our Podclass live or on-demand on YouTube and Twitch.
🗄️ Module Lessons
Engage with our published lessons that summarize material covered in this module.
Decolonizing Mental Health: Frameworks for Healing
Navigating the "Bamboo Ceiling" & Socioeconomic Realities
Reclaiming the Narrative: Media, Representation, and Self-Definition
Building Liberatory Masculinities: Community and Future Visions
📝 Concept Art
Artwork to help summarize material covered in this module.
