Sonic Cartographies
Frevo Was Never Meant to Behave
How Pernambuco’s most exported rhythm was born from Black resistance — and later whitewashed for comfort.
1A+ Dispatch
Context Is A Luxury.
Random Urgencies
Brumadinho Was Not a Tragedy. It Was a Business Model.
A dam sold as “safe,” a town treated as disposable, and a river turned into a waste management plan.
Street Syntax
Brazil’s Real Fine Dining Isn’t on the Menu — It’s on the Sidewalk
In a country marked by inequality, street food remains a site of resistance, survival, and culinary sophistication — often unrecognized, never accidental.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Lindacy Menezes: the Rocinha poet who turned survival into collective memory
On the rhythms of carimbó, on makeshift stages and WhatsApp threads, her words became home.
Shifting Grounds
Portugal Is Gutting Its Cultural Backbone — and Calling It Reform
Less voices, more control: how “reform” is turning culture into a managed asset.
Ancestral Echoes
Today Is Indigenous Consciousness Day. Brazil Is Still Learning What That Means.
As Brazil marks Indigenous Consciousness Day, the gap between ceremonial recognition and material justice for Indigenous peoples remains painfully wide.
Ancestral Echoes
While the State Stumbles, Guinea-Bissau’s Youth Are Saving the Future
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.
Random Urgencies
Maceió: The Ground Sank. Capital Didn’t.
Maceió exposes how multinational capitalism absorbs catastrophe, exports responsibility, and waits patiently for profit to return.
System Hacks
Seventeen Million Steps Out of Poverty
Brazil’s latest social mobility surge is real, fast, and historically unprecedented—but it remains fragile, reversible, and politically contested.
Diaspora Aesthetics
The Death of the Orelhão: How Brazil Is Erasing One of Its Smartest Public Designs
More than a payphone, the orelhão was a climate-tuned acoustic shelter — its removal reveals what happens when communication is treated as a commodity, not a right.
Coded Dreams
Preservation or Extinction? Inside the Algorithmic Threat to Indigenous Languages in Brazil
Brazil’s BILingo project promises inclusion and innovation—but Indigenous leaders warn it may be the latest vehicle for digital extraction and algorithmic genocide.
Coded Dreams
The New Digital Colonizers: AI “Indigenous Girls” Are Brazil’s Latest Extraction Industry
AI-generated "Amazon girls" are flooding Instagram, turning Indigenous identity into algorithmic porn. The platforms profit. And colonialism just got a software update.