Random Urgencies
The Nobility of Tax: Shared Wealth, Shared Future
On Fortune, Fairness, and the Duty to Contribute.
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Sonic Cartographies
Pressing Back: How Porto’s Vinyl Revival Cuts Through the Noise of the Global Industry
From Steam to Signal: Vinyl’s Material Uprising in the Digital Age.
System Hacks
The Loudspeaker on the Rooftop: Zé do Caroço Turned a Favela Into a Voice
Before WhatsApp groups, community radios, and favela podcasts, one man turned his rooftop into a newsroom.
Random Urgencies
Soundproof Childhoods: Autism in the Crossfire
The mothers of Complexo do Alemão are building more than safe rooms. They’re building a new definition of public safety.
Ancestral Echoes
Reclaiming the Canvas: Thirty Years of Decolonising the Lusophone Imagination in São Tomé
Over the past three decades, local artists, educators, and community leaders have used creativity to resist colonial legacies, rebuild identity, and reimagine what it means to be part of the Lusophone world.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Brasil 2408: When the World Ends, Who Gets to Rebuild It?
Afro-Brazilian Futurism, Climate Apocalypse, and the Revolutionary Power of Ancestral Memory.
System Hacks
Obrigado, Donald — How Trump’s Tariff Tantrum Might Backfire in Brazil
Trump’s 50% tariff, meant to defend Bolsonaro, may end up uniting Brazil against both authoritarianism and foreign meddling.
System Hacks
Guardians of Democracy: Code, Courage, and the Civic Firewall
The Network of Civil Resistance Preparing for Brazil’s Next Ballot Battle.
Ancestral Echoes
Echoes in Stone: Niéde Guidon and the Deep Time of Brazil
In the forgotten interior of Brazil, Niéde Guidon unearthed something older than myth and more fragile than truth: evidence that we arrived long before we thought.
Street Syntax
No Grammar, No Mercy: Literatura Marginal and the Riot on the Page
It doesn’t ask for attention. It steals it. Literatura Marginal is not an offshoot—it’s a rupture. Born in blood, beats, and broken Portuguese, this literary insurgency rewrites Brazil from the ruins up.
Sonic Cartographies
Neoperreo: Reggaetón's Dark, Queer, DIY Revolution
How a bedroom studio movement born in Latin America's underground became reggaetón's most radical reinvention
System Hacks
The Price of Green Redemption: How Many Johans Would It Take to Save the Amazon?
Can elite environmentalism protect the Amazon, or does it repeat colonial logic in a greener disguise?