In a captivating, poetic ode to the beauty and strength of mixed languages, writer Julián Delgado Lopera paints a picture of immigrant and queer communities united not by their refinement of language but by the creative inventions that spring from their mouths. They invite everyone to reconsider what "proper" English sounds like – and imagine a ...

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.