How to Get Free: Healing in the USA

Three writers, three radical visions of healing in America today. Decorated, award-winning poets and journalists Morgan Parker, Carvell Wallace, and sam sax’s recent transformative works reimagine the conventions of self-love in a world that wasn’t built for you. Whether it’s Parker’s investigation of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being (You Get What You Pay For), Wallace’s irresistibly made case for life in his excavation of growing up Black and queer and homeless (Another Word for Love), or sax’s kaleidoscopic coming of age novel (Yr Dead)—all these writers present profoundly original meditations on healing, told through the lenses of justice, sex, family, gender, protest, and death. Moderated by The Stacks podcast founder and host, Traci Thomas.

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Moderators

Traci Thomas

The Stacks is a podcast about books and the ways they shape our cultural understandings. Hosted by Traci Thomas, a Black millennial woman who is asking the questions that provoke meaningful and thought provoking conversations. Created in 2018, the show has over 1 million downloads… Read More

Authors and Participants

Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National… Read More

Carvell Wallace

Carvell Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and… Read More

sam sax

Sam Sax is the author of Yr Dead, and the poetry collections Pig, Bury It, and Madness. They’ve received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo and are currently an Italic Lecturer at Stanford University.