Ancestral Echoes
Maria Felipa Burned It All Down (And We're Still Feeling the Heat)
How a Barefoot Revolutionary Became Brazil's Underground Icon.
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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.
Ancestral Echoes
Buried in the Trenches: The Black Battalion and Brazil’s Forgotten Heroes of 1932
They fought for a Constitution that never fought for them. Ninety years later, the silence around Brazil’s Black Battalion speaks louder than any monument.
Street Syntax
From São Bento to SESC: Tracing the Roots of Hip Hop SP
How an exhibition celebrates Hip Hop’s origins in São Paulo’s streets—while today’s voices still fight to be heard.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Portugal’s Memorial Must Reveal What Empire Tried to Hide
On Kiluanji Kia Henda, colonization, and the unfinished project of public memory.
Random Urgencies
Love Kills: Why Brazil's women are safer on the streets than at home
How a country with progressive laws became a graveyard for women.
Street Syntax
Funk, Faction, and the Feedback Loop
Beats from the Red Command: Rios Rap Scene Became a Battleground for Power, Identity, and Crime.
Random Urgencies
Brazilian Karen Tries to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Democracy, Gets Arrested Instead
./run_coup.sh: permission denied
Ancestral Echoes
The Body Remembers: Capoeira, Parkinson’s, and the Dance of Resilience
Afro-Brazilian capoeira is giving Parkinson’s patients in Rio more than balance—it’s giving them back their connection to life.
Coded Dreams
Digital Warriors: How Indigenous Voices Are Rewriting the Algorithm for Climate Justice
From forest floors to global platforms, a new generation of Indigenous activists is dismantling colonial narratives through strategic media sovereignty.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Jacira Roque de Oliveira: The Matriarch Who Turned Pain Into Power
Jacira Roque de Oliveira didn't just raise Brazil's most important rap dynasty—she invented an entirely new language for Black resistance