Random Urgencies
Hundreds of filmmakers, actors and writers have signed a manifesto backing the president’s re-election, with a very Brazilian catch: it comes with a to-do list.
System Hacks
How Brazilian musicians bent melody into protest under a brutal regime.
Sonic Cartographies
1A+ takes the Munich publisher to Lisbon: three days of independent print culture at the Goethe-Institut, 16–18 October.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Commissioned by AUFSTANDTEAM. Presented by Starfire 007, Ira 007 & Neo Coperni.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Silver Bear, Crystal Bear, and a film about corrupted memory: Brazilian cinema didn't just show up at Berlinale 2025 — it redefined what engaged cinema actually looks like.
Random Urgencies
Brazil's federal police are guarding grain barges. The people who guard the river are getting tear gas.
System Hacks
A tin of corn. Family portrait inside. Bible in the corner. Família Conservadora — com princípios cristãos firmados na Bíblia. LOL.
Brazil's forgotten Indigenous language is finding new life through artificial intelligence. Can algorithms help revive what colonisation tried to erase?
Multidisciplinary by nature and necessity, Marianne is not simply building a career — they are sculpting a new territory of expression, where gender, genre, and gesture are freed from the strict lines of categorization.
How Brazil’s Evangelical Right Is Erasing the Orisha to Reclaim a Whitewashed Nation
You don’t need a museum to see the work of Mirthes Bernardes. It’s beneath your feet.
Thank you for reading against the current.
How an Amazonian rivalry became Brazil's most radical cultural spectacle.
What happens when one favela rhythm fragments across 8.5 million square kilometers of territory.
How Brazil's beloved carnival built the blueprint for militia violence—and why nostalgia is the weapon.
MIT researcher and Pará designer build Amazonian futurism where cities learn how forests think.
Before samba was branding, Martinho da Vila turned everyday Black life into the message.
Between geometry and dictatorship, Brazil’s postwar avant-garde rewired modernism into a tool for resistance.
In the Guarani-Kaiowá territories of Mato Grosso do Sul, young MCs are turning hip-hop into a weapon against erasure and forcing Brazil to confront the dispossession at its roots.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl moment revealed how "Latinidad" itself remains a colonial category, rebranding conquest as culture.
Built for sand, sweat, and crowds — not headphones — Bahia’s funk culture prioritizes drums, bodies, and versioned chaos over export-ready perfection.
Indigenous food systems once sustained Brazil’s landscapes. Now they’re under siege — even as the world searches desperately for answers to climate collapse.
Brazilian Funk Still Carries the Ghost of Governor Leonel Brizola
Timor-Leste’s donation after Portugal’s floods exposes the moral gap between economic “growth,” rising racism, and a state that performs empathy instead of delivering protection.