Jail is justice — but Brazil’s far right is far from finished.
To uproot Bolsonarismo, the left must dismantle the conditions that allowed authoritarianism to flourish.
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Beyond the Tourist Snapshot: Bahia in Motion
A 1977 “field recording” tried to bottle Bahia as exotic ambience. The reality is a living current of capoeira, blocos afro, pagodão, and funk.
Lisbon: From Slave Port to Summit Stage
The Black Europeans Lisbon Summit forces Portugal to confront the history it has long silenced — and the racism that still shapes the present.
Ancient Grammar: When the Mind Speaks in Three Voices
How Tupi-Guarani philosophy mapped the mind long before psychology gave it a name.
Geometry of the Baile: Thiagson is dragging academia to the dancefloor
How a classically trained scholar turned internet educator became one of funk’s sharpest translators.
No Borders on the Waves: Surf Farm Caparica Makes the Ocean a Space of Belonging
Once a pastime of the privileged, surfing is being reimagined as a tool of liberation for migrants and refugees.
Skamosa and the Pulse of Urban Amazon Resistance
A cultural collective reclaims Manaus’s forgotten spaces, pulsing with radiola traditions and Indigenous futures.
Carreta Furacão: Brazil’s Meme Truck of Chaos and Joy
A truck, some dollar-store superhero suits, and pure chaotic energy—inside Brazil’s strangest pop-cultural export.
Flamengo on Trial: Racism, Football, and the Price of a Nation’s Game
A R$100 million lawsuit shows how Flamengo embodies the contradiction of Brazilian football: diverse on the pitch, exclusive off it.
Gilberto Gil: Doctor of Rhythm, Minister of Difference
From Tropicália to cultural policy, Brazil’s most visionary musician is honored not just for his songs, but for reshaping what democracy sounds like.
The Meteorite Underground: Brazil’s All-Female Team Fighting for Cosmic Heritage
How Brazil’s As Meteoríticas are battling black markets, bad laws, and burned archives to preserve the oldest rocks in the solar system.
Resistir Para Existir: An Artistic Rebellion Unfolds in Maputo
In Mozambique's capital, a radical artistic residency is rewriting the rules of cultural resistance.
Street Syntax
Mushrooms, Money, and Memory: Brazil’s Psychedelic Dilemma
From sacred forest remedies to multimillion-real farms and global wellness hype, psilocybin sits at the fault line of Indigenous knowledge, capitalist rebranding, and Brazil’s war on drugs.
Sonic Cartographies
Hermeto Pascoal and the Unbound Geography of Sound
In an age when climate catastrophe forces us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world, a forty-year-old performance in a Brazilian cave system reads like prophecy.
Diaspora Aesthetics
From Salon to Feed: The Persistence of Visual Apartheid
Arthur Timótheo vs. The Algorithm. Canvas as propaganda. Oil as algorithm. The first filters weren't digital—they were brushstrokes.
Coded Dreams
Chavoso da USP: The Periphery’s Professor
How a gay kid from Brasilândia became a new kind of Brazilian intellectual—unfiltered, fearless, and impossible to ignore.
Ancestral Echoes
The Living Archive: How Brazil's Native Communities Are Reclaiming Their Skin
Where Timeless Patterns Meet Electric Needles and Ancestral Knowledge Becomes Living Archive.
Sonic Cartographies
Before Netflix and Chill, There Was Samba and Canvas
Di Cavalcanti turned samba from criminal soundtrack into modernist masterpiece. Then capitalism ate it alive.
Street Syntax
Your Food, Their Blood: The Hidden Violence of the Delivery Economy
The death of a delivery worker has exposed the brutal reality of Brazil's gig economy – where refusing to climb stairs can cost you your life.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Coffee Money and Manifesto Dreams: Brazil's Modernist Con
The oligarchs who funded Brazil's "cultural revolution" while writing about racial degeneracy and colonial nostalgia.
Coded Dreams
Felca vs. The Algorithm: The Influencer Who Refused 50 Million
Felca never asked to be a moral compass, but his viral takedowns of beauty scams, betting apps, and child exploitation made him one anyway.
System Hacks
Teen Scientist Just Punked Big Plastic: Cassava!
How a school science project from Brazil could flip the script on packaging waste.
Street Syntax
Gangsters in Gucci, Gasoline in Methanol
Inside the PCC’s billion-dollar fuel empire that turned gas stations, fintechs, and hedge funds into a laundering machine.
Random Urgencies
Immigrants Fought Portugal’s Fires. The Far Right Lit a Different One.
As migrant brigades risked their lives, André Ventura rolled up his sleeves for Instagram.