Luedji Luna: Black women are the revolution

“We have all the data that confirms and statistically proves that Brazil is a racist country. We are a country that was built on slavery” - Brazilian singer Luedji Luna says in a Guardian interview about her country. But there's more to Luna and her home-country than racism - “We’re expected to sing about hunger, pain, hunger, sadness. But we can sing other things. We live other things, too. That’s why I talk about love, to escape this stereotype, this expectation of pain when you think about a Black woman. I’m talking about love as healing. I’m talking about love as power”.