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Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx writer..[1][2] and Post Graduate Research Candidate at Victoria University[3] in Naarm (Melbourne).
Early life
editMelo was born Salvador da Bahia but moved early in life to Rio de Janeiro.[4] Her mother[1] is an Afro Brazilian and Brazilian Indigenous heritage and his father[2] an Brazilian Air Force Meteorologist African descent.
Career
editMelo is currently is working as a Digital Educational Designer at the Hamilton Centre, he is also the Vice President of the African Studies Group at University of Melbourne[5]. He holds positions as a board member of both the Incubate Foundation[6] and the City of Yarra Business Advisory Group. He is one of the founders of Melko Boutique[7][8]
He is a Multilingual author.[9], and his words can be found in Australia in Overland Magazine[10], Meanjin Quarterly[11], Kill Your Darlings[12], Peril Magazine, Colournary Magazine, ABC[13][14], Mantissa Poetry, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese[15],[16] Cordite Poetry Review and Voz Limpia Poesia. In Africa, he writes for Africa is a Country Magazine[17]. In Brazil, he writes, in Portuguese, for Alma Preta Jornalismo, Guia Negro News [18]and is a columnist for Negre News[9]
Melo was a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement(2020-2023) [19]and a contributor to books such as Growing Up African in Australia[4] (Black Inc., 2019), Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry[20] (Sweatshop, 2021), Resilience: A celebration of poetry, fiction, and essays[21] from Mascara Literary Review (Ultimo Press, 2022), The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic [22](Routledge, 2022) and the Handbook of Critical Whiteness | Deconstructing Dominant Discourses Across Disciplines[23] (Springer, 2023). In 2023 Melo was the curator of the First African and African Diaspora Literary Day Festival in Australia.[24]
Personal life
editMelo migrated to Australia from Brazil in 2003[2].[21] He has said: "Moving to Australia changed my destiny"[2] A few years after his arrival in Australia, his brother and his sister joined him and today also live in Victoria. "Now there are eight of my family members living in ...Australia." Melo was one of the business proprietors recipients of the 10-plus years Melbourne's Lord Mayor's Commendations[25] in 2019.
He loves Vegemite.[26]
References
edit- ^ a b "I'm recording my mother's story, one Whatsapp message at a time". SBS Voices. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ a b c d "Moving to Australia changed my destiny, like my father said it would". SBS Voices. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ a b Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Magan Magan, Ahmed Yussuf. 2018-09-26.
- ^ "African Studies Group UNIMELB". africanstudiesgroup.com.au. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "About Incubate Foundation". Incubate Foundation. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Melko | Women's Clothing & Accessories | About Us". Melko. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ Costigan, Justine (2015-05-08). "Melko: Brazilian labels injects colour into Melbourne's fashion scene". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ a b "Guido Melo, Autor em Negrê". Negrê (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Guido Melo, Author at Overland literary journal". Overland literary journal. 2022-11-24. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "The Fox and the Grapes". Meanjin. 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Guido Melo". Kill Your Darlings. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Found in Translation: Saudade". ABC listen. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Changing Tracks: Freddie Mercury and Guido's dad live on in this song". ABC listen. 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Racism in Australia may not be overt but it's no less insidious and brutal: Afro-Brazilian writer". SBS Language. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ ""A história é escrita por quem vence," diz Guido Melo, escritor afrobrasileiro publicado na Austrália". SBS Language (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Guido Melo". africasacountry.com. 2023-04-21. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Guido Melo, Autor em Guia Negro". Guia Negro (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "Guido Melo". Sweatshop. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ Dunn, Winnie; Pham, Stephen; Grainer, Phoebe (May 2021). Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry (1st ed.). Australia: Sweatshop Literacy Movement Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-9924886-6-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ a b "Resilience, Michelle Cahill, Monique Nair, Anthea Yang (9781761151170) — Readings Books". www.readings.com.au. 2022-11-16. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ "The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
- ^ Ravulo, Jioji; Olcoń, Katarzyna; Dune, Tinashe; Workman, Alex; Liamputtong, Pranee, eds. (2023). "Handbook of Critical Whiteness". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0. ISBN 978-981-19-1612-0.
- ^ "MAV | Multicultural Arts Victoria". mav. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ "10-plus years recipients - 2019 Lord Mayor's Commendations - City of Melbourne". www.melbourne.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ Frost, Natasha; Varney, Abigail (2023-11-12). "The Corner Lot Where All the World's Vegemite Comes From". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-27.