Street Syntax
Crunch, Culture, and Cane Juice: Pastel isn’t just a snack
How a Deep-Fried Mashup Became São Paulo’s Street Food Icon — an edible archive of immigration, hustle, and Sampa-style survival.
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Sonic Cartographies
When the Police Start Reading Your Lyrics in Court, You Know the Culture War Turned Real
How Brazil Turns Art Into Evidence—and Why the Real Crime is Censorship.
Street Syntax
Marta and the Myth of the Equal Game
How one woman rewrote the rules while playing by them.
Ancestral Echoes
Marching Between Worlds: Indigenous Women Are Redefining Power from the Ground Up
As extractive capitalism threatens the planet's lungs, Brazil's Indigenous women offer something more radical than resistance: a blueprint for survival.
Sonic Cartographies
Noise Is Queen: Deize Tigrona's Two-Decade Revolution
From favela frequencies to global stages, the queen of Brazilian funk refuses to turn down.
Street Syntax
From Terraces to TikTok: Betting on a Crisis
From TikTok teens betting on corner kicks to match-fixing scandals, Brazil’s national sport is spiraling into a casino of despair—and no one’s pulling the plug.
Diaspora Aesthetics
A Brush Against Erasure: Maria Auxiliadora's Return to the Bienal
The 36th Bienal de São Paulo opens its archives and its halls to an artist once ignored, transforming institutional memory into an act of cultural restitution.
Coded Dreams
The Cyber-Tropical Mutation: Rewired Science Fiction from the Margins
From analog favelas to intergalactic terraforming, Brazilian science fiction is hacking colonial narratives, building weird futures, and exporting glitch aesthetics to the world.
System Hacks
Healing the Divide: Cannabis, Class, and Justice in Modern Brazil
Why Brazil's cannabis future may be written in union halls, not government offices.
Ancestral Echoes
Maria Felipa Burned It All Down (And We're Still Feeling the Heat)
How a Barefoot Revolutionary Became Brazil's Underground Icon.
Sonic Cartographies
Capicua: Singing Against Sleep
In Portugal’s age of political exhaustion, the rapper, writer, and scholar Ana Matos Fernandes — known as Capicua — insists that staying sensitive is an act of resistance.
Random Urgencies
Angola's Revolution Ate Its Own Kids and Now They're Pissed
How Africa's oil-rich liberation heroes became the villains of their own story.