LIVE From NYC With Jose Antonio Vargas
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio talk to In The Thick All-Star Jose Antonio Vargas in this unique, live episode as part of the PEN Out Loud series in New York City. In a very intimate conversation about mental health and the immigrant community, Maria, Julio and Jose Antonio get personal. The live audience also shared their experiences, anxieties and advice. This show was possible thanks to collaboration with PEN America and The Strand bookstore. ITT Staff Picks
- A researcher explains the mental health toll of undocumented immigrants along the border (from the American Psychological Association's site).
- The New York Times book review of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- A list of resources to support immigrants and their mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, I'm Maria No Hossan, and I'm Uly Erica Loberella. |
| 0:07.5 | Dude, we got like a really, really special live show. |
| 0:11.3 | Yep. Yeah, it was great, right? I don't think great is the right word, money. Okay. I think it was like out of body, |
| 0:18.0 | the most beautifully emotional thing I've done in a while. I know you tweeted that. that I was like whoa I know I did and and what I'm talking about is we did this live in the thick in New York City at the fabulous |
| 0:32.1 | subculture venue as part of the Penn Out Loud series in collaboration with |
| 0:38.3 | Penn America and the Strand Bookstore. I mean all rock stars, all these organizations. |
| 0:43.7 | And this live in the thick features one of our all stars, Jose Antonio Vargas. |
| 0:48.8 | He's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, the CEO of Define American, and he joined us to discuss his new book called |
| 0:56.2 | Dear America, Notes of an Unddocumented Citizen. |
| 1:00.8 | And then what we did is that we opened up the mic to the audience to have a conversation about |
| 1:05.2 | mental health and the immigrant community. |
| 1:08.8 | It was like really powerful. |
| 1:10.8 | The energy was really electric, but also as you said, it was really electric but also as you said it was very emotional and |
| 1:16.1 | very vulnerable and you know there was a lot of who there were a lot of tears and |
| 1:21.1 | and laughter you know it really was a truly special night for us at In The Thick and I mean from the bottom of my heart like I cannot wait for us to share this recording with our listeners all over the country and the world. |
| 1:35.0 | All right, let's do it. Here it is. |
| 1:40.0 | We've been talking a lot in the preparation, the run up to this show, about what you really want to talk about, which is the issue of mental health. |
| 1:49.0 | And just some background on that, so the book came out just on Tuesday and the 18th. |
| 1:54.0 | Yay. |
| 1:58.0 | You can go to define American. |
| 2:00.0 | com to get the tour dates. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm going all across the country to promote the book and if ICE will be there we don't know |
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