About

Luso-focused. Tuning into the unheard. Open Beta.

About

Critical essays and analysis on lusophone culture, politics, and resistance — from Brazil and Portugal to the wider Atlantic world. Deep reporting you won’t find in mainstream media.

There are no photos — deliberately. In an age of saturation, we turn to words. 
Our zine is slow media: made to be read, not scrolled. Its bold, minimal identity nods to from Reclam and Suhrkamp design traditions — compact, radical, unmistakable.

Born in Almada but thinking beyond borders, our dispatch names what often goes unnamed: silenced authorship, minor gestures, radical glitches — and curiosities ranging from meme-worthy sparks to moving stories.

We are not journalists. Our texts are machine-generated and curated by the editorial team. We don’t report news — we select, remix, and frame stories from the Lusophone world for a wider audience.

We track what’s overlooked: unsettling sounds, misrepresented faiths, languages in flux. Publishing, for us, is not a product — it’s how we mess with the record, hack the archive, and rewire cultural memory. Each topic adds a hue to our spectrum.

Our sections aren’t boxes. They’re porous, instinctive, shifting, more gut than grid. We file with ears open, feet on the ground, hearts tuned to the glitch. Follow the colors and step into the worlds we uncover.

Street Syntax - 1A+ Dispatch
The grammar of walls, wheels, and rebellion.
Ancestral Echoes - 1A+ Dispatch
Where the past whispers futures.
System Hacks - 1A+ Dispatch
Cracks in the code where resistance blooms.
Random Urgencies - 1A+ Dispatch
Dispatches from the now-now.
Diaspora Aesthetics - 1A+ Dispatch
Beauty in exile, identity in motion.
Shifting Grounds - 1A+ Dispatch
Terrains in transit, truths in tension.
Sonic Cartographies - 1A+ Dispatch
Tracing geographies through basslines and borders.
Coded Dreams - 1A+ Dispatch
What machines imagine when we sleep.

The Dispatch is curated by 1A+ in Almada, Portugal.