Lee Mokobe (TED Fellow) and Otter Jung-Allen (Philadelphia Poet Laureate) perform a pointed, powerful and challenging piece dedicated to the memory of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Lee Mokobe is a black transqueer poet hailing from Cape Town, South Africa. His work focuses on human rights, LGBTQIA experiences and african history. He is an international award-winning slam poet with a BNV Championship under his belt. A three time TED speaker and 2015 Youngest TED Fellow. Mokobe is the founder and creative director of Vocal Revolutionaries, a non-profit literary organization that helps shape Africa's next creative youth leaders.
Otter Jung-Allen is a genderqueer poet and performer raised in West Philadelphia. Their work most often centers transness, celebration for the sake of itself, and the emotion of growth. They are currently an internationally award winning artist, a 2015 Brave New Voices World Champion, the 2015 Liberty Unplugged Champion, the 2016-17 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and the founder of the Voices of the East Coast Project. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
21 авг 2017
