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The poetry of everyday speech

As an immigrant, writer Juliana Delgado Lopero learned early that not all English is created equal, her accented speech defined and policed by peers and authority figures alike. She urges us to instead celebrate the creative uses of language that spring from our individual and cultural experiences.

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As an immigrant, writer Juliana Delgado Lopero learned early that not all English is created equal, her accented speech defined and policed by peers and authority figures alike. She urges us to instead celebrate the creative uses of language that spring from our individual and cultural experiences.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSoMa, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Juliana Delgado

Writer and Historian

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, she’s the author of Quiéreme and ¡Cuéntamelo!, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants that won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She's received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Midnight Breakfast, Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, and TimeOut Mag. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary non-profit. Follow her @julianadlopera.

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