While teaching at Vassar College more than ten years ago, after Trayvon Martin’s murder, Kiese Laymon noticed a change in his teaching: He writes, “I was less invested in cultivating students who could critically interrogate text, faithfully imitate text, or courageously innovate text, and more concerned with making sure my students and I left the classroom, sentimental as it sounds, better at dreaming and loving unreasonably” (Laymon). Drawing from this language, this presentation will explore what it means to teach and love unreasonably, to write unreasonably, and to undo some of the institutional damage of reasonableness. Unreasonable love starts with acknowledging the rich complexity of our students. Unreasonable love honors a conscious connection between equity and wellness. The overall goal of our panel is to highlight the ways in which writing pedagogies must be grounded in both health equity and social/linguistic justice to nurture, support, and celebrate our students.