Hanging Out With the Elephant in the Room with C. Fausto Cabrera

After 20 years in prison, C. Fausto Cabrera is free. Six weeks post-release is quite a time to talk about transformation, and here we go.

Content warning: prison, anxiety and depression, social death, not being a victim, dry room, Keats' negative capability, doing party drugs and getting lost at sea, beets and boiled eggs.

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You owe it to yourself to check out C. Fausto Cabrera's work at his website, faustocabrera.com.

Follow him: @CFaustoCabrera on Twitter and @chris.fausto1 on Instagram.

Chris and I met thanks to my work for Haymarket Books on their announcement of the inaugural Writing Freedom Fellows, of whom he is one. Find out more about the fellowship and Chris' fellow writers at writing-freedom.org.

Learn about the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop at mnprisonwriting.org, and read the collective's essay anthology, American Precariat. One of the book's coeditors, Zeke Caligiuri, will join Bill Ayers in conversation at Pilsen Community Books in Chicago on Friday, March 15.

Learn about the narrative non-profit We Are All Criminals at weareallcriminals.org.

Find info about human rights org Until We Are All Free at uwaaf.org.

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All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.

Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.