Shifting Grounds
Brazil’s most profitable railway is also one of its quietest human rights scandals—where trains run on schedule and Indigenous lives are pushed permanently off track.
Coded Dreams
Forget eco-tragedy. Native creators build solar-punk megacities where they pilot the future.
Street Syntax
In places like Jardim Catarina, race, gender, and sexuality aren’t erased by progress; they are quietly redesigned through everyday life.
Ancestral Echoes
No violins, no saviors. Just Indigenous women defending the Amazon on their terms.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Samba in tuxedos, naked chorus girls, flapper rebels — Rio’s noisy, racialized streets, not São Paulo’s manifestos, forged Brazil’s real modernism.
Random Urgencies
From colonial courts to modern legislation, Brazil’s trans history reveals how visibility without protection becomes exposure — and why January 29 is a denunciation of state violence, not a feel-good milestone.
Street Syntax
Inside the Sambadrome, where samba schools battle with myth, muscle, and meticulous dramaturgy.
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.
In 1990s Recife, a crew of musicians treated mangrove swamps as circuit boards and Afro-Brazilian drums as operating systems.
Tired of being framed as “authentic” or “backward,” the Northeast shows up in Lisbon as many things at once: urban, Indigenous, digital, diasporic, and unapologetically contemporary.
Follow the Women Who Keep the Amazon Boiling — how Tacacazeiras Just Became Brazil’s Newest Cultural Powerhouse.
How Pernambuco’s most exported rhythm was born from Black resistance — and later whitewashed for comfort.
A dam sold as “safe,” a town treated as disposable, and a river turned into a waste management plan.
In a country marked by inequality, street food remains a site of resistance, survival, and culinary sophistication — often unrecognized, never accidental.
On the rhythms of carimbó, on makeshift stages and WhatsApp threads, her words became home.
Less voices, more control: how “reform” is turning culture into a managed asset.
As Brazil marks Indigenous Consciousness Day, the gap between ceremonial recognition and material justice for Indigenous peoples remains painfully wide.
On the beaches of Guinea-Bissau, young people are guarding thousands of turtle eggs while the state stumbles — choosing long-term survival over short-term chaos.
Maceió exposes how multinational capitalism absorbs catastrophe, exports responsibility, and waits patiently for profit to return.
Brazil’s latest social mobility surge is real, fast, and historically unprecedented—but it remains fragile, reversible, and politically contested.