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Funk in the Museum: Language, Power, and the Future of Portuguese
The exhibition proves the obvious and still controversial truth: the future of Portuguese is being written in the bailes, not in Lisbon’s grammar books.
Alice Brill: The Human Eye of São Paulo’s Modern Dream
A quiet observer who turned São Paulo’s rush toward modernity into a study of humanity, light, and everyday grace.
Complexo Brasil at Gulbenkian: Where Beauty Refuses to Hide the Fire Beneath
A blockbuster show that refuses to let Portugal keep pretending Brazil is just colour, rhythm and saudade.
When Culture Becomes Contraband: Orixás Under Fire
When a drawing sparks a police raid and a woman is stabbed for practicing her faith, it’s clear: intolerance isn’t rising quietly — it’s arriving armed.
No One Wakes Up Safe in Iguatemi
Between 4 and 5 AM, twenty pistoleros raided a Guarani Kaiowá village. One man was executed. The country keeps calling it “conflict.” The community calls it what it is: survival against a state-backed land war.
Concrete Fever Dreams: Brazil Turned Brutalism Into a Public Weapon
Part protest, part climate science, part improvisation — Brazil’s Brutalism rewrote the rules using nothing but concrete and nerve.
A Quilo: Revolution on a Scale
Born in a mineiro lunch rush, the “a quilo” buffet reshaped Brazil’s urban culture long before New York’s delis stumbled into a parallel version.
Cabo Verde Is Done Waiting for Silicon Valley to Validate It
A new wave of digital thinking centers local context, small businesses, and diaspora feedback loops — not imported tech fantasies.
Sines: The Future Arrives, but the Past Refuses to Leave
Portugal’s quiet coastal town becomes a battleground of global data capitalism — and a mirror of everything the country still hasn’t solved.
Belo Horizonte: The City That Hacked The Beat
How belo horizonte’s bedroom producers, feed-born edits, and street dances turned a regional funk into the most unpredictable force in brazilian music.
The Town That Speaks Four Languages: A Hidden Republic of Resistance
In São Gabriel da Cachoeira, words aren’t decoration — they’re defiance.
Diaspora Aesthetics
From Almada to Broadway: Bráulio’s Beautiful Chaos
From punk zines in Almada to Mac Miller’s posthumous masterpiece, the Portuguese designer turned chaos into a design manifesto — and the Grammys are finally paying attention.
Street Syntax
Solimões: When the River Learns to Say No
In Brazil’s tri-border Amazon, the Solimões carries cocaine, fear, and forgotten governance. But what if the same current that feeds the drug war could be hired for something else?
Random Urgencies
FAQ: How does an AK-47 end up in a favela?
A rifle isn’t bought easily.
Ancestral Echoes
Before the Crown, the Headdress: Reframing Brazil's Origin Story
A recent documentary and a new generation of Indigenous leaders are dismantling Brazil’s colonial creation myth — proving that history didn’t begin in 1500, and it certainly didn’t begin with a crown.
Diaspora Aesthetics
LatimLove: A New Barrio in Print
The transborder magazine that turns language into a commons.
System Hacks
Oil, Diamonds, and the Ghost of Freedom: Who Owns Liberation?
Angola’s liberation movement defeated colonial power — only to replicate its architecture of control. What happens when freedom becomes governance, and governance becomes greed?
Random Urgencies
Welcome to Belém: The COP Where the Global South Takes the Wheel
After years of oil-soaked climate conferences in petro-kingdoms, COP30 lands in the Amazon’s front yard — where the forest is dying, China’s electric cars roll in, and Lula’s Brazil is ready to prove that hope isn’t naïve, it’s political.
Coded Dreams
From Territory to Timeline: Brazil's Digital Gang Frontier
How Brazilian criminal organizations turned Instagram and TikTok into recruitment pipelines, territorial markers, and status displays — and why police can't keep up.
Ancestral Echoes
The Heat Was Never the Problem ...
Colonial theories of "tropical inferiority" still haunt Brazil — now Black artists are burning them down.
Coded Dreams
The Remote Work Trap: A Brazilian Architect Lost in Asia’s Fraud Machine
What happens when ambition meets automation, and the promise of remote work becomes a digital cage?
System Hacks
Lisbon’s Earthquake and Brazil’s Aftershock
A Natural Disaster Helped Trigger a Revolution.
Ancestral Echoes
Postcards from the Plantation: Brazil’s Tropical Dream Rebranded
From Freyre’s erotic myths to Instagram’s filtered favelas, Brazil keeps remixing colonial desire into a pop aesthetic called “diversity.”