Eu sou Alexandre Ribeiro, escritor premiado e fundador da escola “
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From the Hood to the World: Mileny, SLAM SP 2024 Champion
Mileny, Champion of SLAM SP 2024, Delivering One of the Best Performance-Poems I've Ever Seen
Literature | by Alexandre Ribeiro | Portuguese version
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Da quebrada pro mundo! From the Hood to the World!
A column that amplifies the voices and narratives of the periphery by Alexandre Ribeiro.
Picture: Alexandre Machado
Mileny
Champion of SLAM SP 2024, delivering one of the best performance-poems I’ve ever witnessed.
Do you know what a euphemism is?
Mileny, SLAM SP 2024 champion, answers that question with one of the finest performance-poems I've ever seen.
On stage, she doesn’t just masterfully explain the definition—she uses every verse to expose the traps of words that disguise the truth.
Picture: Alexandre Machado
Watch the full poem below. Seriously, it’s art, a masterclass, and a wake-up call all rolled into one!
Mileny is an ancestral dream. The perfect blend of awareness, sass, and humor. As she herself proclaims: "It’s not a stray bullet; it’s homicide"; "If things are black, they’re damn good."
In her flow, society’s contradictions are stripped of euphemism and laid bare, with no filters or half-truths. And that’s our dream too.
I am Alexandre Ribeiro, an award-winning writer and founder of the school“Da Quebrada Pro Mundo”, a project that was born in the heart of the periphery but now reaches the world, always with the goal of amplifying our voices and narratives.
I also lead CUFA Germany, bringing a bit of the power of the Central Única das Favelas to the diaspora here in Europe.
My work is about resisting, inspiring, and expanding the horizons of people from the periphery who, like me, live between borders.
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