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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Guido Melo

Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author, poet, and Literary Workshop Facilitator based in Naarm. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Digital Media from Victoria University, his words can be found in Meanjin Quarterly, Kill Your Darlings, Peril, Colournary, Mantissa Poetry, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite Poetry Review, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo, and Guia Negro News. Guido is a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement, a columnist for Negrê, and a contributor to Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc., 2019), Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry (Sweatshop, 2021) and Resilience: A celebration of poetry, fiction, and essays from Mascara Literary Review (Ultimo Press, 2022)

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24 November 202225 November 2022 · Politics

‘Sir, please get me the Manager’: Brazil before and after Bolsonaro

Guido Melo

By then, although young in age, I already knew about those rituals of humiliation and how they were part of my Black family's lives. I also knew that surviving those daily interactions required putting my head down and following the instructions received with no hesitation. I must have had ‘the talk ‘with my parents when I was eight or nine. Life was just like that. Being Black in Brazil means living in a war. No one should ever go to war underprepared.

31 January 202218 July 2022 · Decolonialism

Before Paulo Freire, there was Amilcar Cabral

Guido Melo

Although Freire never met Cabral in person, he visited Guinea-Bissau and spent much time dedicated to understanding Cabral's ‘revolutionary’ educational concepts ideals. When asked about Cabral's utopian views, he replied: 'The revolution that doesn't dream is doomed. So is doomed the revolutionaries who don't dream. The question that arises from the dream is just to know how they [revolutionaries] will fight to make the dream viable.'