My mother’s buried story
AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalised from literature, academia, and media — it poses the threat of industrial-scale erasure.
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Guido Melo
Guido Melo is a columnist with Latin America’s La Silla Vacía newspaper. He is a poet, writer, and PhD student in Conversational AI at Victoria University, Melbourne. His essays have appeared in English, Spanish, and Portuguese-language publications across Latin America, Australia, Africa, the United States, and Brazil.
No one should be surprised we exist
The documentary film, 'Rolé — Histórias dos Rolezinhos' by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.
The Managers of Brazil
In the wake of the insurrection in Brazil, an Afrobrazilian reflects personally on the entanglement of race and class in the country, and on what needs to be done to unravel it.
A little bit of African thinking
The profound influence, often underplayed, that great African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral had on Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.