Ancestral Echoes
The Right to Be Seen: Afro-Brazilian Culture Reclaims Public Space
Erasure was policy. Visibility is resistance.
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Sonic Cartographies
Jamaicaxias: The Afro-Diasporic Rebellion You’ve Never Heard Of
In the Baixada Fluminense, a dancehall beat defies the borders of empire and maps out a new world.
Random Urgencies
The Glitter of Tradition, the Shadow of Cruelty: Bullfighting in Portugal
No tradition should survive just because it sparkles—especially when it leaves suffering in its wake.
Diaspora Aesthetics
The Mirror and the Lens: Neusa Sousa’s Portrait of São Tomé and Príncipe
In a country often reduced to chocolate and beaches, Neusa Sousa’s film offers something radical: a mirror held up to everyday life.
Random Urgencies
The Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica in an Age of Climate Collapse
In 1974, the Amazon Was Sacrificed for Progress. In 2025, the Ritual Continues.
Street Syntax
Drone Against the Dance: Policing Funk While Pretending to Honor It
When celebration becomes a crime, even drones are drafted into the policing of rhythm.
When the State Looks Away: The Peril of Indigenous Leadership
Legal guarantees on paper, death threats in practice: why defending Indigenous land still means risking everything.
Sonic Cartographies
Paulo Flores: Angola’s Unofficial Ambassador of Semba and Storytelling
Awarded Angola’s highest cultural honor, Paulo Flores continues to use music as a vessel for memory, resistance, and community—on stages from Luanda to Lisbon.
System Hacks
Democracy Beyond the Binary: Trans Women Transforming Brazilian Politics
In a country where trans bodies are often targets, three women are transforming them into symbols of resistance and governance.
Sonic Cartographies
Frequencies of Fire: The Anthropophagic Beat
How Brazil’s Artists Chew Up Oppression and Spit Out Sound.
Ancestral Echoes
The Center Holds: Lélia Gonzalez and the Black Soul of Brazil
From Samba to Sociology, How Lélia Gonzalez Shaped Brazil’s Radical Black Consciousness.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Between Shores and Systems: Where the Coquí Sings
Kongo Square Studio brings rhythm, research, and reciprocity to the centre of a quietly radical design practice.