Kafka in Porto: The Legal Worker Imprisoned for Being a Migrant
The case of Singh, a legally contracted immigrant detained in a police-run facility, exposes the dark absurdity of Portugal’s migration system.
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The Moral Panic Mixtape: Tuga Drill and the Politics of Noise
While the far right organizes, the state obsesses over teenagers with microphones. Welcome to Portugal.
Islands, Wetlands, and Memory: Lusophone Africa’s New World Heritage
UNESCO’s latest World Heritage sites in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau challenge colonial conservation models—and place community-led ecology at the center.
The Silent Ride: What the Tour de France Won’t Show You
As millions cheer for yellow jerseys in Europe, unsponsored riders in Mozambique pedal through dust and distance—carrying medicine, dreams, and the weight of survival.
Holiday in Manaus: The Dance That Saved Her Life
From the streets of Manaus to a psychology degree in São Paulo, Maria Solange’s viral dance to Madonna lit the fuse on an extraordinary second act.
Gold for Goa, Porcelain for Pemba: From Empire’s Depths to People’s Hands
From colonial seabeds to schoolbooks and syringes: $95 million in pirate treasure to fund futures once denied.
Not in Our Name: Portugal Must Act to Stop the Genocide in Gaza
The world is watching genocide unfold—again. And once more, silence makes accomplices.
From Empire to Innovation: Macau’s South-South Circuit
A Brazilian startup wins big in Macau’s innovation circuit — revealing how a once-colonial outpost is becoming the Global South’s soft-tech gateway to China.
The Struggle Has a Motorcycle Engine: Paulo Galo, Lisbon, and the New Cartographies of Labor
From Brazil’s gig economy protests to Europe’s migrant frontlines, Galo de Luta maps the struggles that cross borders but share the same enemy.
The Delivery Man Is Not the Problem: Portugal’s Hypocritical Blind Spot
While migrant workers deliver dinner, global elites buy the city. It’s time to shift the blame.
The Alphabet of Monsters: Fefe Talavera’s Ritual of Rupture
In the cracked walls of São Paulo, letters sprout claws, beasts take shape from typeface, and chaos refuses to be tamed. Fefe Talavera doesn’t paint for galleries—she paints for the restless subconscious.
Loud, Loved, and Unapologetic: The Life of Preta Gil
Brazil mourns the loss of a pop icon, a radical body activist, and an unapologetic breaker of taboos.
Sonic Cartographies
Glitter and Gunshots: Inside Brazil’s Loudest Love Songs and Dirtiest Beats
From Belém’s pirated romance anthems to Recife’s pelvic revolutions and Rio’s favela raves, a new sonic map of resistance emerges—cheap, vulgar, sexy, and impossible to ignore.
Shifting Grounds
The Curve and the Edge: Architecture as Promise and Protest
What Brazilian architecture reveals about class, ideology, and the battle for public space.
Ancestral Echoes
Drawing from the Ashes: Post-Conflict Art in Timor-Leste
From freestyle rap battles to thread-based ritual installations, young artists in Timor-Leste are reclaiming their future through underground sound, sacred memory, and community-led aesthetics.
System Hacks
From Serie C to Social Vanguard: Bahia FC’s Radical Rise
How a once broken team from Salvador became Brazil’s loudest voice for love, justice, and radical football.
Sonic Cartographies
Sweat, Screens, and Scirocco: Wolfram’s Rituals of Heat
From Vienna’s disco underground to Lisbon’s sonic laboratories, Wolfram reimagines dance culture as moving image, projected ritual, and climate metaphor.
Random Urgencies
Beyond the Green Mirage: Climate Politics, Suffering, and the New Amazonian Order
REDD+, carbon credits, and the Anthropocene are reshaping the Amazon—but not in the ways glossy sustainability campaigns would have you believe. This is not about saving nature. It’s about surviving the collapse.
Ancestral Echoes
The Right to Be Seen: Afro-Brazilian Culture Reclaims Public Space
Erasure was policy. Visibility is resistance.
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.