Yosimar Reyes

rdf:langString Yosimar Reyes

rdf:langString Yosimar Reyes

rdf:langString Yosimar Reyes

rdf:langString San Francisco State University

rdf:langString Reyes in 2015

rdf:langString English, Spanish

rdf:langString For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly, Prieto

rdf:langString Poet, Performer, Activist, Public Intellectual

rdf:langString Yosimar Reyes (born September 22, 1988) is a Mexican-born poet and activist. He is a queer undocumented immigrant who was born in Guerrero, Mexico and raised in East San Jose, California. Reyes has been described as "a voice that shines light on the issues affecting queer immigrants in the U.S. and throughout the world." Reyes centers queer, working class, and immigrant themes in his work. He has been a guest speaker at numerous universities, community organizations, and cultural institutions including Stanford University, UCLA, Princeton University, the San Francisco Public Library, the Park Avenue Armory, the Aspen Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and the North American Literary and Cultural Studies department at Saarland University in Germany. From 2016 to 2018, Reyes served as Arts Fellow at Define American, a media and culture organization founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas which "uses the power of stories to [...] shift the conversation around immigrants, identity and citizenship in a changing America." He also previously served as Public Programs Coordinator at La Galería de la Raza in San Francisco.