AUTHORS
Ana Lúcia Silva Souza
“I am a child of Brazil’s Black Social Movements. I am an activist, an educator, a reader of the world. I have a degree in political and social sciences, a master's degree in social sciences, a doctorate and a postdoctoral degree in applied linguistics. I am a professor at the Federal University of Bahia, at the Institute of Letters. I lead the research group RASURAS: Literacies of Reexistence in the Black Diaspora. I am affiliated to the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers - ABPN. I am a part of the board of directors of the NGO Ação Educativa. In my research I've been diving into uses of language, literacy, hip hop culture, youth and affirmative action. I have several publications, including the book Literacies of Reexistence – Poetry, Graffiti, Music, Dance - Hip-Hop and also Literacies in High School Ed. Parable.”
TIELY
TIELY was born in April 1975. He is a multidisciplinary artist from East São Paulo. He is a member of the Hip Hop generation of the 90s. Tiely has worked/ is working on numerous music and audiovisual projects in which he works to bring visibility to the gender and sexuality debates within Hip Hop culture and the larger Brazilian society. Tiely is a poet, educator, actor, writer, and filmmaker who has worked as an art-educator for more than 20 years. Besides art and education, he is an avid lover of and competitor in sports. Within sports, he is primarily focused on soccer, rugby, and boxing. Tiely has published blogs, articles, essays and poetry. He has also published in academic collections. He is known as Brazil’s first nationally recognized hip hop artist who is a transman.
Osmundo Pinho
Osmundo Pinho is from Salvador da Bahia. He has a PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP, 2003). He works in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and coordinator of the Territoriality, Violence and Heritage Group in the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB/CNPq). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2014) and a Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library at Tulane University in New Orleans (2020). Co-organizer with Joao H. Costa Vargas of “Antinegritude: The Impossible Black Subject in the Brazilian National Formation” (2016) and author of “Captivity: Antinegritude and Ancestrality” (2021), in addition to other books, articles and essays.
illustrators
ani ganzala
I am Ani Ganzala, visual artist, mother, black, queer, located in Salvador - Brazil, my work revolves around the affectivity and spirituality of Black women and queer people.
Photo by Esthefanía Preciado O.
Anthony Smith, Jr.
I make artwork that’s filled with rich dense spaces. These spaces coalesce into vibrant and sometimes floral worlds where I often play out moral, political, or philosophical fantasies using calligraphic gestures and collage. I often layer and erase work to capture the ghost of what came before. I see the mission of my art as attempting to describe the world without the filters we have created to make sense of that world. The visual onslaughts I create make passing attempts at establishing balance in the traditional sense but more often than not represent a form of visual static rather than compositional harmony.