The Train That Never Leaves: How Vale’s Carajás Railway Is Crushing the Awá-Guajá
Brazil’s most profitable railway is also one of its quietest human rights scandals—where trains run on schedule and Indigenous lives are pushed permanently off track.
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Jungle Cyberpunk: How the Amazon's Indigenous Are Rewriting Tomorrow
Forget eco-tragedy. Native creators build solar-punk megacities where they pilot the future.
In Brazil’s Urban Periphery, Modernity Arrived — But Equality Didn’t
In places like Jardim Catarina, race, gender, and sexuality aren’t erased by progress; they are quietly redesigned through everyday life.
Yanuni: The Forest Is Not a Metaphor
No violins, no saviors. Just Indigenous women defending the Amazon on their terms.
Brazilian Modernism Didn't Start in São Paulo. It Started in the Demolition Sites.
Samba in tuxedos, naked chorus girls, flapper rebels — Rio’s noisy, racialized streets, not São Paulo’s manifestos, forged Brazil’s real modernism.
Visibility Is a Battlefield: Inside Brazil’s Trans Struggle From Carnival to Congress
From colonial courts to modern legislation, Brazil’s trans history reveals how visibility without protection becomes exposure — and why January 29 is a denunciation of state violence, not a feel-good milestone.
The Greatest Show You Never Knew You Didn't Understand
Inside the Sambadrome, where samba schools battle with myth, muscle, and meticulous dramaturgy.
The Cyberpunk Swamp Revolution That Rewired Brazils Sound Still Hits Like the Future
In 1990s Recife, a crew of musicians treated mangrove swamps as circuit boards and Afro-Brazilian drums as operating systems.
The Northeast Refuses to Be One Thing: Inside A Nordeste do Nordeste
Tired of being framed as “authentic” or “backward,” the Northeast shows up in Lisbon as many things at once: urban, Indigenous, digital, diasporic, and unapologetically contemporary.
What Happens When Ancestral Street Food Becomes Cultural Heritage?
Follow the Women Who Keep the Amazon Boiling — how Tacacazeiras Just Became Brazil’s Newest Cultural Powerhouse.
Frevo Was Never Meant to Behave
How Pernambuco’s most exported rhythm was born from Black resistance — and later whitewashed for comfort.
Brumadinho Was Not a Tragedy. It Was a Business Model.
A dam sold as “safe,” a town treated as disposable, and a river turned into a waste management plan.
Street Syntax
Brazil’s Real Fine Dining Isn’t on the Menu — It’s on the Sidewalk
In a country marked by inequality, street food remains a site of resistance, survival, and culinary sophistication — often unrecognized, never accidental.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Lindacy Menezes: the Rocinha poet who turned survival into collective memory
On the rhythms of carimbó, on makeshift stages and WhatsApp threads, her words became home.
Shifting Grounds
Portugal Is Gutting Its Cultural Backbone — and Calling It Reform
Less voices, more control: how “reform” is turning culture into a managed asset.
Ancestral Echoes
Today Is Indigenous Consciousness Day. Brazil Is Still Learning What That Means.
As Brazil marks Indigenous Consciousness Day, the gap between ceremonial recognition and material justice for Indigenous peoples remains painfully wide.
Ancestral Echoes
While the State Stumbles, Guinea-Bissau’s Youth Are Saving the Future
On the beaches of Guinea-Bissau, young people are guarding thousands of turtle eggs while the state stumbles — choosing long-term survival over short-term chaos.
Random Urgencies
Maceió: The Ground Sank. Capital Didn’t.
Maceió exposes how multinational capitalism absorbs catastrophe, exports responsibility, and waits patiently for profit to return.
System Hacks
Seventeen Million Steps Out of Poverty
Brazil’s latest social mobility surge is real, fast, and historically unprecedented—but it remains fragile, reversible, and politically contested.
Diaspora Aesthetics
The Death of the Orelhão: How Brazil Is Erasing One of Its Smartest Public Designs
More than a payphone, the orelhão was a climate-tuned acoustic shelter — its removal reveals what happens when communication is treated as a commodity, not a right.
Coded Dreams
Preservation or Extinction? Inside the Algorithmic Threat to Indigenous Languages in Brazil
Brazil’s BILingo project promises inclusion and innovation—but Indigenous leaders warn it may be the latest vehicle for digital extraction and algorithmic genocide.
Coded Dreams
The New Digital Colonizers: AI “Indigenous Girls” Are Brazil’s Latest Extraction Industry
AI-generated "Amazon girls" are flooding Instagram, turning Indigenous identity into algorithmic porn. The platforms profit. And colonialism just got a software update.
Street Syntax
A Library Heist in São Paulo That Accidentally Became a Postcolonial Art Seminar
The thieves grabbed Matisse’s Orientalist fantasies and Portinari’s plantation ghosts, creating the most chaotic — and unintentionally political — art collection of the year.
Ancestral Echoes
Pretoguês: About A Brasil That Never Spoke With One Voice
Why the myth of a monolingual nation still shapes power, memory, and who gets to belong.