Shifting Grounds
Reclaiming the Tracks: Transpraia’s Second Life
On a forgotten beach line, Portugal reimagines a future of collective movement.
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Pridewashed: How Liberation Became a Lobby
No justice, no pride—why Lisbons EuroPride 2025 is under fire from within the queer community.
Ancestral Echoes
Operação Angola and the Generation That Escaped to Free a Continent
In a year of guns and shadows, they chose flight over silence. The road to liberation began in the corridors of a student dormitory.
System Hacks
The Migrant Who Votes Against Himself
On the Absurdity of Chega’s Diaspora Triumph.
Sonic Cartographies
Marianne 3.0: The Unfolding Of An Artist Beyond Form
Multidisciplinary by nature and necessity, Marianne is not simply building a career — they are sculpting a new territory of expression, where gender, genre, and gesture are freed from the strict lines of categorization.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Uncredited and Iconic: Bea Feitler and the Politics of the Page
Bea Feitler didn’t just design layouts—she recomposed the power of the printed page.
Sonic Cartographies
Speaking in Tongues: Language, Identity, and Hip-Hop Tuga
How Hip-Hop Tuga Moved From the Margins to the Mirror.
Sonic Cartographies
From Favela to Tribunal: Why Funk Still Frightens the Elite
A history of rhythm and repression—how Brazil’s most powerful sound systems keep crashing into the country’s deepest fears.
Coded Dreams
Intergalactic Bapho: How Pajubá Became the Operating System of AfroTranstopia
By speaking from the scar, we write ourselves into the future.
Street Syntax
Semiotic Sabotage: Daniel Lisboa and the Urban Poetry of Disobedience
A fugitive voice rewrites colonial grammar on the walls of Lisbon, one fragment at a time.
Ancestral Echoes
Erasing Exu: The Right-Wing Crusade Against Afro-Brazilian Faith
How Brazil’s Evangelical Right Is Erasing the Orisha to Reclaim a Whitewashed Nation
Shifting Grounds
The Soft Violence of Discovery
From admiration to erasure: reflections on being a foreign creative in a country slowly pricing out its own.