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Jail is justice — but Brazil’s far right is far from finished.
To uproot Bolsonarismo, the left must dismantle the conditions that allowed authoritarianism to flourish.
Carreta Furacão: Brazil’s Meme Truck of Chaos and Joy
A truck, some dollar-store superhero suits, and pure chaotic energy—inside Brazil’s strangest pop-cultural export.
Flamengo on Trial: Racism, Football, and the Price of a Nation’s Game
A R$100 million lawsuit shows how Flamengo embodies the contradiction of Brazilian football: diverse on the pitch, exclusive off it.
Gilberto Gil: Doctor of Rhythm, Minister of Difference
From Tropicália to cultural policy, Brazil’s most visionary musician is honored not just for his songs, but for reshaping what democracy sounds like.
The Meteorite Underground: Brazil’s All-Female Team Fighting for Cosmic Heritage
How Brazil’s As Meteoríticas are battling black markets, bad laws, and burned archives to preserve the oldest rocks in the solar system.
Resistir Para Existir: An Artistic Rebellion Unfolds in Maputo
In Mozambique's capital, a radical artistic residency is rewriting the rules of cultural resistance.
Mushrooms, Money, and Memory: Brazil’s Psychedelic Dilemma
From sacred forest remedies to multimillion-real farms and global wellness hype, psilocybin sits at the fault line of Indigenous knowledge, capitalist rebranding, and Brazil’s war on drugs.
Hermeto Pascoal and the Unbound Geography of Sound
In an age when climate catastrophe forces us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world, a forty-year-old performance in a Brazilian cave system reads like prophecy.
From Salon to Feed: The Persistence of Visual Apartheid
Arthur Timótheo vs. The Algorithm. Canvas as propaganda. Oil as algorithm. The first filters weren't digital—they were brushstrokes.
Chavoso da USP: The Periphery’s Professor
How a gay kid from Brasilândia became a new kind of Brazilian intellectual—unfiltered, fearless, and impossible to ignore.
The Living Archive: How Brazil's Native Communities Are Reclaiming Their Skin
Where Timeless Patterns Meet Electric Needles and Ancestral Knowledge Becomes Living Archive.
Before Netflix and Chill, There Was Samba and Canvas
Di Cavalcanti turned samba from criminal soundtrack into modernist masterpiece. Then capitalism ate it alive.
Your Food, Their Blood: The Hidden Violence of the Delivery Economy
The death of a delivery worker has exposed the brutal reality of Brazil's gig economy – where refusing to climb stairs can cost you your life.