Street Syntax
Lapdances and Dead Ends: When the Robe Turns Rogue
In the upside-down theatre of Brazilian justice, the most surreal scenes don’t happen in courtrooms—they play out on the streets.
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Ancestral Echoes
It Wasn't the Dolphin: From River Magic to Legal Alibi
How Brazil’s Pink Dolphin Became a Scapegoat for Gender Violence.
Diaspora Aesthetics
“I Am Portugal”: Dino D’Santiago Didn’t Ask for Inclusion—He Composed the Nation Instead
Fifty years after Portugal’s last colonial troops left Africa, the singer’s new opera confronts the ghosts they left behind—with strings, silence, and a voice that won't be erased.
System Hacks
Behind the Glass: Brazil's Cultural Funding Mirrors Its Colonial Blueprint
Suffocated in the storefront, the real Brazil resists in rhythm, verse, and absence.
Street Syntax
Mirror Rooms and Hidden Truths: The Secret History of Brazilian Motels
How Brazil's love hotels became sanctuaries of pleasure in a country that feared the body but obsessed over its silhouette.
Coded Dreams
Tropical Glitch: How Brazil's 1926 Futurist Hack Prefigured Everything
The machine age hits the jungle and something breaks. Not the machine, not the jungle, but the logic that keeps them separate.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Beyond Dystopia: Brazilian Afrofuturism, a Social Technology for Survival
In a country still haunted by colonial ghosts, a new generation of Black artists, writers, and activists is coding futures not from fiction—but from necessity.
System Hacks
Gavião Kyikatejê and the Long Road to Recognition
In the heart of the Amazon, Brazil's first professional Indigenous football club is proving that belonging in the beautiful game isn't about assimilation—it's about authenticity.
Random Urgencies
COP30: Recycling the Rhetoric, Dumping the People
While world leaders rehearse speeches about saving the Amazon, Brazil is quietly preparing to bury its climate shame—literally—on top of quilombola communities. Welcome to COP30. Don’t forget your biodegradable lanyard.
Sonic Cartographies
Louder Than Permission: The Untamed Life Of Fluxo Da Rua
Fluxo da Rua, a spontaneous and often criminalised form of street gathering, is as much about visibility as it is about music. It may not seek approval, but it demands to be understood.
Random Urgencies
Racing Toward the Abyss: Climate Fiction or Contemporary Reality?
In Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s "And Still the Earth," Brazil’s descent into environmental and social ruin was fiction in 1981. Now, it reads like an accelerated prophecy of the Anthropocene.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Beyond Representation: Gustavo Paixão and the Decolonial Eye of Brazilian Fashion
How Gustavo Paixão Is Reclaiming Fashion’s Visual Language for Indigenous Brazil