“Their Histories And Their Stories Don’t Get To Be Told Or Seen” with Guido Melo

This episode I am speaking with Guido Melo.  Guido is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author and poet based in Naarm (Melbourne). We have an insightful conversation about how slavery affected the entire North and South America continents and not just the United States.  40% of the enslaved Africans that were brought to the Americas were found their way to Brazil.  Guido highlights the severe atrocities of slavery in South America and gives eye opening facts that prove that racism has been a global issue for centuries.  

 

Guido is a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement, a columnist for Negrê and a contributor to Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc., 2019) and Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry (Sweatshop, 2021).

 

His words can be found in Peril Magazine, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite Poetry Review, Mantissa Poetry Review, A Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo and Guia Negro News.