Джулиан Дельгадо Лопера
Джулиан Дельгадо Лопера | |
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| Рожденный | 4 июня 1988 г. |
| Национальность | Колумбиян |
| Оккупация | Поэт, литературный исполнитель, двуязычный писатель, ЛГБТ -активист, Уральный Историк |
| Годы активны | 2015 - Present |
| Примечательная работа | Скажи мне! , Тропическая лихорадка |
| Награды | Национальное общение для искусств (2024 г.) |
| Веб -сайт | www |
Джулиан Дельгадо Лопера (родился 4 июня 1988 года) - странный колумбийский писатель и исполнитель. Они являются автором « Cuéntamelo! Иллюстрированная коллекция странных историй иммигрантов в Соединенных Штатах в 1980 -х годах. [ 1 ] Они используют творческие выражения, такие как написание, странное литературное выступление и двуязычная поэзия для продвижения ЛГБТ проектов -активности по всей области залива . Delgado Lopera является исполнительным/ художественным директором в некоммерческой организации Radar Productions с 2015 года. [ 2 ]
Ранняя жизнь и образование
[ редактировать ]Джулиан Дельгадо Лопера родился в Боготе , Колумбия и иммигрировал со своей семьей в Соединенные Штаты в 2003 году, когда им было пятнадцать лет. Сначала они переехали в Майами, штат Флорида , затем переехали в район залива, чтобы найти свой странный дом. [ 3 ]
Дельгадо Лоперы учился в Калифорнийском университете в Беркли , где они получили степень бакалавра в области женщин и гендерных исследований в 2011 году. [ 3 ] Они продолжили свое образование в Университете штата Сан -Франциско получили магистерство изобразительных искусств в области творческого письма. и в 2015 году [3]
Notable works
[edit]Delgado Lopera has been published by Four Way Review, The Bold Italic, Weird Sister, Revista Canto, Transfer Magazine, Raspa Magazine, Black Girl Dangerous,and SF Weekly.[4]
¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Immigrants (2014)
[edit]¡Cuéntamelo! (tell me about it) was published in 2014. The book is a collection of oral histories featuring Latino, queer, Immigrants over the age of forty-five.[1] All of the histories are illustrated and are available in English and Spanish. One of the subjects in ¡Cuéntamelo!, Adela Vazquez, a transgender immigrant woman of Cuban descent, influenced Delgado Lopera's interest in these untapped stories during a class presentation.[1] Delgado Lopera first published four stories in the magazine SF Weekly titled "Cuentamelo: An Oral History of Queer Latin Immigrants in San Francisco" on June 26, 2013.[5] They then received two creative writing awards from Galería de la Raza and the Queer Cultural Center,[6] which allowed them to continue finding more histories speaking on the issues of homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and the AIDS pandemic.[7] ¡Cuéntamelo! is credited with bringing histories of identity intersection like queer, immigration status, gender and age to light.[8]
Quiéreme (2017)
[edit]Quiéreme (like me or love me) was published in March 2017. Quiéreme is a collection of essays documenting the experience of longing for love. Delgado Lopera plays with language in Quiéreme to create a mixed combination of English and Spanish into "Spanglish" as a form of bilingual literature.[9]
Fiebre Tropical (2020)
[edit]Delgado Lopera's first novel debuted in March 2020 to positive critical reception.[10][11] It was a finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction[12] and in 2021, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction[13] and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction.[14]
Activism
[edit]Radar Productions
[edit]Julián Delgado Lopera became the Executive/ Artistic director role of the Nonprofit organization Radar Productions in 2015.[2] Writer, Michelle Tea, founded Radar Productions back in 2003, its mission is to commission and offer queer performers, from diverse backgrounds, spaces to tell their LGBTQA experience.[4] Radar Productions is based in San Francisco and organizes queer literature performances around the Bay Area that are open freely to the public.[2]
Julián Delgado Lopera initiated "Queering the Castro" soon after becoming Executive and Artistic Direction of Radar Productions. "Queering the Castro" was a yearlong project with a mission to revive the Castro's queerness through a series of panel discussions, poetry readings, queer intimacy, drag queen storytelling, and bilingual performance.[15][4] Under Delgado Lopera's leadership, Radar Productions received $25,000 from San Francisco's Grants for the Arts.[15] Their mission for "Queering the Castro" sought to revive the queer culture and to make it more inclusive of communities of color through art exhibitions, poetry readings, and literary awards.[15] They collaborated with Magnet, the gay men's health center in the Castro, the San Francisco Public Library's Eureka, Valley/ Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library, and the GLBT History Museum run by the GLBT Historical Society.[15]
Artistic contributions
[edit]As a Queer, Transgender, People of Color (QTPOC) activist, Delgado Lopera collaborated in "Noche de Ambiente" (night of atmosphere) a multimedia exhibition available to the public from October 2016 to February 2017 at the GLBT History Museum.[16] "Noche de Ambiente" offered a glimpse into the life of LGBT Latino identities in San Francisco from the 1970s to the 1990s.[16][7] Delgado Lopera volunteered at the GLBT History Museum, and during their time there, they were asked to participate in the "ambiente" exhibition. The term "ambiente" has been informally used as code for Latino queerness/resistance and as an introduction to the Latino LGBT social scene.[17] Delgado Lopera collaborated in the exhibition to use art as a tool to educate the public about queer Latino History in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco. They recognize the importance of making room for multi-national and inter-generational queer Latino History and the need to extend the term Latinidad in the U.S.[18][16][19]
Performance
[edit]Sister Spit
[edit]A performer of Sister Spit, a feminist, queer, comedic poetry roadshow, Delgado Lopera travels around the country.[2] Sister Spit emerged during the 1990s as a weekly open-mic poetry slam retaliation against the wave of misogynistic poetry prominent around the San Francisco area at the time.[2] Sister Spit now tours yearly after experiencing a revival as "Sister Spit: the next generation" in 2007. They were invited to participate in 2016 and continues to tour alongside Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Cathy de la Cruz, Celeste Chan, Virgie Tovar, Maya Songbird, and Denise Benavides.[2]
Other locations
[edit]Delgado Lopera has performed in various venues throughout the Bay Area and across the US. including Action Fiction!, Red Light Lit, Beast Crawl, Lit Quake, and has lectured at Wayward Writers.[4]
Awards and honors
[edit]The San Francisco Foundation named Delgado Lopera the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in 2014.[6] They also received an award from the Regen Ginaa Artist Fund from Galería de la Raza in 2013[20] and the National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center in 2014.[6] Delgado Lopera was the recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[21] in Creative Writing.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c O'Neal, Lauren (March 12, 2015). "An Interview with Juliana Delgado Lopera, Author of ¡Cuéntamelo!". The Toast.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Sister Spit". RADAR PRODUCTIONS.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Delgado Lopera, Juliana. Personal interview. April 11, 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Santiago, Roberto (September 28, 2015). "An Interview with Juliana Delgado Lopera". English Kills Review.
- ^ Delgado, Juliana (June 26, 2013). "Cuentamelo: An Oral History of Queer Latin Immigrants in San Francisco". SF Weekly.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Larena S. Burno (8 November 2014). "A Seat at the Writer's Table: Juliana Delgado Lopera". sff.org. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hames-García, Michael; Martínez, Ernesto Javier (April 13, 2011). Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4955-6.
- ^ Boffone, Trevor (Fall 2015). "Tragic Bitches: Queer Xican@ Performance Acts against Oblivion". Rocky Mountain Review. 69 (2): 148–164. doi:10.1353/rmr.2015.a603912. JSTOR 24642021. S2CID 146538622.
- ^ Lopera, Juliana Delgado (2017). Quiéreme. Nomadic Press. ISBN 978-0-9981348-4-0.
- ^ Garner, Dwight (March 2, 2020). "In 'Fiebre Tropical,' a Colombian Teenager Moves to Miami and Comes of Age". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
- ^ Orl, Florencia; oni (April 3, 2020). "This Is Your Home Now: On Juliana Delgado Lopera's "Fiebre Tropical"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
- ^ FIEBRE TROPICAL | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Gentes, Brian (June 2, 2021). "2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ Cleghorn, Elinor (May 13, 2021). "Awards: Triangle Winners; Firecracker Finalists". Shelf Awareness. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Bajko, Matthew S. (October 15, 2015). "Program Aims to 'Queer' the Castro". Bay Area Reporter. Vol. 45, no. 42.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Staver, Sari (October 27, 2016). "Museum Exhibit Looks at LGBT Latinx Life". Bay Area Reporter. Vol. 46, no. 43.
- ^ Garrido, Anahi Russo (January 15, 2010). "El Ambiente According to Her: Gender, Class, Mexicanidad, and the Cosmopolitan in Queer Mexico City". NWSA Journal. 21 (3): 24–45. ISSN 2151-7371 – via Project MUSE.
- ^ Родригес, Хуана Мария (2003). Латинский квир: практика идентичности, дискурсивные пространства . NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-7549-3 .
- ^ Ривера-Сервера, Рамон (26 октября 2012 г.). Выполнение странного латинидада: танец, сексуальность, политика . Университет Мичиганской прессы. ISBN 978-0-472-05139-7 .
- ^ «Фонды Araera de Laza Regen & Ginaa от Araera de Laza 2013 года открыты - Deadline расширен!» Полем Galería de la Raza 9 октября,
- ^ "Джулин Дельгадо Ланго " www.arts.gov 2024Полем
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