Drums Over Drops: Bahia’s Funk Doesn’t Wait for the Club
Built for sand, sweat, and crowds — not headphones — Bahia’s funk culture prioritizes drums, bodies, and versioned chaos over export-ready perfection.
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Brazil’s Ancestral Kitchens Are Fighting for Survival — and Teaching the World How to Eat Again
Indigenous food systems once sustained Brazil’s landscapes. Now they’re under siege — even as the world searches desperately for answers to climate collapse.
CIEP: The School That Became a Sound System
Brazilian Funk Still Carries the Ghost of Governor Leonel Brizola
When the Smallest Country Shows the Biggest Spine ...
Timor-Leste’s donation after Portugal’s floods exposes the moral gap between economic “growth,” rising racism, and a state that performs empathy instead of delivering protection.
Feijão-Carioca: The Bean That Ate Brazil
How a fast-cooking, engineered grain replaced regional food cultures — and what that loss means in a warming country built on biodiversity.
From “Stigmatised Territory” to Travel Trend
The shift from fear to fascination may look like progress, but history shows what happens when neighbourhoods become desirable before they are protected.
The First Kick Was Never Theirs
From missionary playground to political territory, Indigenous football turns a colonial pastime into resistance.
Brazil Is Back at the Oscars — and Its Cinema Has Always Been Political
Brazil’s latest Oscar contender isn’t a comeback story, but the echo of a cinematic tradition built on dissent, satire, and unresolved histories.
The Archive That Keeps Burning — and Why Brazil’s Cinema Refuses to Die
From Cinema Novo to catastrophe: the uneasy life of a national film memory.
“Rio de Janeiro” by Chaseiro: Indonesia’s City-Pop Arcade Dream
Long before playlists, passports, or “world music” marketing, Indonesia imagined Rio de Janeiro as a dancefloor—and pressed it to vinyl.
Brazil Was Never a Racial Paradise. Afro-Brazilian Art Is Done Pretending Otherwise.
As Brazil’s racial myth collapses, Black artists are rebuilding the country’s memory from the ground up.
São Luís Feels the Bass Before Sunrise: Brazil’s “Little Jamaica” Rewired Reggae Into a Collective Pulse
Inside the nights where radiolas roar, couples dance agarradinho, and reggae remains a badge of identity rather than a quest for fame.
Shifting Grounds
Portugal Is Gutting Its Cultural Backbone — and Calling It Reform
By scrapping advisory boards, the government is centralizing power over art — and calling it modernization.
Ancestral Echoes
Die If You Must
How Brazil Spent a Century “Protecting” Indigenous Peoples to Death.
Shifting Grounds
The Train That Never Leaves: 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.
Coded Dreams
Jungle Cyberpunk: How the Amazon's Indigenous Are Rewriting Tomorrow
Forget eco-tragedy. Native creators build solar-punk megacities where they pilot the future.
Street Syntax
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.
Ancestral Echoes
Yanuni: The Forest Is Not a Metaphor
No violins, no saviors. Just Indigenous women defending the Amazon on their terms.
Diaspora Aesthetics
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.
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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.
Street Syntax
The Greatest Show You Never Knew You Didn't Understand
Inside the Sambadrome, where samba schools battle with myth, muscle, and meticulous dramaturgy.
Sonic Cartographies
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.
Diaspora Aesthetics
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.
Ancestral Echoes
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.