The interview with Marisol Barenco de Mello happened in e-mails with the teachers Jose Anchieta de Oliveira Bentes and Huber Kline Guedes Lobato, in September and October 2019. The discussions on the Internet, Marisol Mello reflects on Bakhtin's thoughts, based on alterity and dialogue in the human sciences, in education, in discussions about classes, genders and races and in understanding the current political situation in Brazil.