Sonic Cartographies
Awarded Angola’s highest cultural honor, Paulo Flores continues to use music as a vessel for memory, resistance, and community—on stages from Luanda to Lisbon.
System Hacks
In a country where trans bodies are often targets, three women are transforming them into symbols of resistance and governance.
Sonic Cartographies
How Brazil’s Artists Chew Up Oppression and Spit Out Sound.
Ancestral Echoes
From Samba to Sociology, How Lélia Gonzalez Shaped Brazil’s Radical Black Consciousness.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Kongo Square Studio brings rhythm, research, and reciprocity to the centre of a quietly radical design practice.
Street Syntax
What Brazil’s toy obsessions reveal about nostalgia, identity, and the quiet rituals of emotional survival.
Shifting Grounds
As real estate speculation thrives, the Lisbon periphery becomes a battlefield where precarious lives are crushed under the weight of police operations and policy failures.
System Hacks
He wasn’t just a footballer. He was a doctor, a drinker, a dissenter. And for a brief, blinding moment, he helped turn Corinthians into the most democratic football club on Earth.
Random Urgencies
On Fortune, Fairness, and the Duty to Contribute.
Sonic Cartographies
From Steam to Signal: Vinyl’s Material Uprising in the Digital Age.
System Hacks
Before WhatsApp groups, community radios, and favela podcasts, one man turned his rooftop into a newsroom.
Random Urgencies
The mothers of Complexo do Alemão are building more than safe rooms. They’re building a new definition of public safety.