System Hacks
Renato Freitas: The Outsider Curitiba Can’t Ignore
Tracing the unpolished, improbable rise of a politician who doesn’t know how to bow.
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Diaspora Aesthetics
Design Is Dead: This Brazilian Creative Is Calling for Revolution
Rahuany Velleda's viral Instagram manifesto declares war on the very industry that made her – and she's not backing down.
Ancestral Echoes
The Answer Was Always Here: The Climate Document the World Needs
The Indigenous NDC is a correction. A reorientation. A declaration that the road to climate justice doesn’t just run through Indigenous lands—it begins there.
Shifting Grounds
From Pink Street to Beato: Musicbox Dies So Casa Capitão Can Live
After 18 years, Lisbon's legendary underground sanctuary closes forever. Six days later, the revolution rises from its ashes.
Diaspora Aesthetics
O Processo: Angola’s Unfinished Independence, Seen Through an Unforgiving Lens
A hybrid series turns a historic trial into a layered meditation on Angola’s independence and the voices left out of its official story.
Coded Dreams
Alessandra Araújo: The Blogueira Raiz Who Hacked the Global Runway
From cassava-root beauty hacks to couture made of corn husks, Alessandra Araújo proves you don’t need Milan or Paris when you have Wi-Fi and red dirt roads.
Street Syntax
From Ministry Stage to Mugshot: When the Word Isn’t Enough
Elisa Lucinda called funk a triumph over violence. But the state called Poze a criminal anyway.
Sonic Cartographies
From Salvador to Lisbon: The BaianaSystem Supply Chain
How Salvador's sonic insurgents built a transatlantic pipeline for musical resistance.
Street Syntax
O Rapa vs. The People: The Order of the Streets
From slavery’s aftershocks to police sweeps, Rio’s vendors have turned survival into a public act of defiance.
Ancestral Echoes
Culinary Gentrification: Why the Acarajé Isn’t a Trend
What gets lost when ancestral recipes become Instagram bait—and who pays the price for culinary creativity without context.
Random Urgencies
Private Forests, Public Flames: Portugal's Deadly Fire Cycle
How decades of forest policy turned private profit into public catastrophe.
Sonic Cartographies
Between Beats and Borders: MC Gringo, Germany’s Funk Carioca Anomaly
He crossed continents not with luggage, but with basslines.