From Empire to Innovation: Macau’s South-South Circuit

A Brazilian startup wins big in Macau’s innovation circuit — revealing how a once-colonial outpost is becoming the Global South’s soft-tech gateway to China.

The Struggle Has a Motorcycle Engine: Paulo Galo, Lisbon, and the New Cartographies of Labor

From Brazil’s gig economy protests to Europe’s migrant frontlines, Galo de Luta maps the struggles that cross borders but share the same enemy.

The Delivery Man Is Not the Problem: Portugal’s Hypocritical Blind Spot

While migrant workers deliver dinner, global elites buy the city. It’s time to shift the blame.

The Alphabet of Monsters: Fefe Talavera’s Ritual of Rupture

In the cracked walls of São Paulo, letters sprout claws, beasts take shape from typeface, and chaos refuses to be tamed. Fefe Talavera doesn’t paint for galleries—she paints for the restless subconscious.

Loud, Loved, and Unapologetic: The Life of Preta Gil

Brazil mourns the loss of a pop icon, a radical body activist, and an unapologetic breaker of taboos.

Glitter and Gunshots: Inside Brazil’s Loudest Love Songs and Dirtiest Beats

From Belém’s pirated romance anthems to Recife’s pelvic revolutions and Rio’s favela raves, a new sonic map of resistance emerges—cheap, vulgar, sexy, and impossible to ignore.

The Curve and the Edge: Architecture as Promise and Protest

What Brazilian architecture reveals about class, ideology, and the battle for public space.

Drawing from the Ashes: Post-Conflict Art in Timor-Leste

From freestyle rap battles to thread-based ritual installations, young artists in Timor-Leste are reclaiming their future through underground sound, sacred memory, and community-led aesthetics.

From Serie C to Social Vanguard: Bahia FC’s Radical Rise

How a once broken team from Salvador became Brazil’s loudest voice for love, justice, and radical football.

Sweat, Screens, and Scirocco: Wolfram’s Rituals of Heat

From Vienna’s disco underground to Lisbon’s sonic laboratories, Wolfram reimagines dance culture as moving image, projected ritual, and climate metaphor.

Beyond the Green Mirage: Climate Politics, Suffering, and the New Amazonian Order

REDD+, carbon credits, and the Anthropocene are reshaping the Amazon—but not in the ways glossy sustainability campaigns would have you believe. This is not about saving nature. It’s about surviving the collapse.

The Right to Be Seen: Afro-Brazilian Culture Reclaims Public Space

Erasure was policy. Visibility is resistance.