"I wanted to write a love letter to the people that inspired me to be the poet that I am today,"
"He's going around trying to convince them but the reality is his grandmother just wants to celebrate her birthday," explains Reyes. "So there's this tension between how do you prepare and how do you live in the moment."
"A lot of them lived through Proposition 187, so there's been like waves of immigration movements that they've lived. And so the best way that they survive has been through staying focused on just trying to pay the rent,"
Yosimar Reyes, Santa Clara County poet laureate and a DACA recipient brought to the U.S. from Mexico at age three, wrote the play No Llegamos Aquí Solos. The play premieres at Mexican Heritage Plaza and centers on Ignacio, a young activist who tries to organize undocumented neighbors against immigration raids while confronting family priorities, including his grandmother's birthday. The protagonist's experience reflects intergenerational survival strategies, where long-term exposure to immigration politics and economic pressures leads many to prioritize daily joy and paying rent over activism. The play was commissioned by Teatro Vision and draws from lived caregiving experiences.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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