NAAFA Webinar Series 2023: Corazón y Más - Poetry and Inspiration for Fat Liberation and More
Thursday, September 28, 2023
10AM PT / 11AM MT / 12PM CT / 1PM ET
Duration: 60 minutes
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Yesika Salgado (she/her) is an internationally recognized activist and writer whose work is beloved by hundreds of thousands of fans across numerous social media platforms. In this edition of the NAAFA Webinar Series, Yesika joins host Tigress Osborn (she/her) to discuss, fa, family, identity, and more. We’ll also discuss Yesika’s best-selling poetry collections (Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa), and her determination to make poetry accessible to everyone in everyday scenarios.
NAAFA virtual events are for fat people and fat-positive folx of all sizes. Our virtual events are offered free of charge thanks to the generosity of our community of NAAFA donors.
This webinar is presented via Zoom, in English, and with English auto-captions by Otter.ai. ASL Interpreting by Pro Bono ASL.
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a mission to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination through advocacy, education, and support. Our webinars are offered to the community free of charge thanks to the generosity of those who give to NAAFA. To support this and other NAAFA programming, visit naafa.org/give.
Image Description: A headshot of Yesika Salgado, a fat woman with light skin, dark eyes and dark curly hair. She is wearing a green dress with a white pattern and is looking into the camera at you.
Speaker Bios:
Yesika Salgado (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, culture, city, and fat body.
Salgado is a leading voice in poetry, both in performance and social media. She has garnered a large online following across multiple social media platforms through her poetry and her determination to make poetry accessible to everyone in everyday scenarios. Her combined following stretches out to over 200,000 readers. She is the co-founder of Chingona Fire, a poetry collective that curates and hosts poetry-based events in Los Angeles serving Women and Nonbinary folks of color. She is also a long-time production staff member of Da Poetry Lounge, the country's largest running weekly poetry venue.
She is a two-time National Poetry Slam finalist, Long Beach Slam Champion, and recipient of the 2020 International Latino Book Award in Poetry. Her work has been taught in the curricula of the most prestigious universities in the nation and continues to gain traction as a staple of modern poetry taught in schools.
Yesika’s work has been celebrated and featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Univision, HBO, CNN, NPR, TEDx, Spotify, Sundance Film Festival, and many more. She has successfully partnered and created with Planned Parenthood, Voto Latino, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, CARECEN, LA County Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and countless community centers and organizations in California.
She is an internationally recognized body-positive activist and the writer of the columns Suelta for Remezcla and Relaciones for R29 Somos. Yesika is the author of the best-sellers Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa, published with Not a Cult Media, and is represented by Folio Literary Management.
Follow her @yesikastarr!
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