What does it mean to bear witness when the witness has been told their story doesn't matter?

In this episode of Anything Goes, we sit down with Alejandro Martínez Guerrero, a PhD researcher in the Warwick Writing Programme. His work sits at a searing intersection: the Mexican drug war, queer survivors of violence, and the creation of a graphic novel.

We talk about what it takes to listen to testimonies that have been silenced—stories of state and criminal violence that are often too painful, too stigmatised, or too complex to tell. Alejandro shares how he navigates the space between testimony and fiction, why he turned to illustration as a form of witnessing, and what queer narrative strategies can teach us about surviving—and telling—the truth.

A conversation about the stories that refuse to disappear, the bodies that keep memory, and what universities owe to those who have been left out of the frame.