Ancestral Echoes
The Center Holds: Lélia Gonzalez and the Black Soul of Brazil
From Samba to Sociology, How Lélia Gonzalez Shaped Brazil’s Radical Black Consciousness.
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Diaspora Aesthetics
Between Shores and Systems: Where the Coquí Sings
Kongo Square Studio brings rhythm, research, and reciprocity to the centre of a quietly radical design practice.
Street Syntax
From Geloucos to Labubu: How Capitalism Packaged Our Dreams
What Brazil’s toy obsessions reveal about nostalgia, identity, and the quiet rituals of emotional survival.
Shifting Grounds
The Bulldozer Arrives Before the Solution: Evictions, Spectacle, and the Politics of Exclusion
As real estate speculation thrives, the Lisbon periphery becomes a battlefield where precarious lives are crushed under the weight of police operations and policy failures.
System Hacks
Democracia Já: The Sócrates Doctrine
He wasn’t just a footballer. He was a doctor, a drinker, a dissenter. And for a brief, blinding moment, he helped turn Corinthians into the most democratic football club on Earth.
Random Urgencies
The Nobility of Tax: Shared Wealth, Shared Future
On Fortune, Fairness, and the Duty to Contribute.
Sonic Cartographies
Pressing Back: How Porto’s Vinyl Revival Cuts Through the Noise of the Global Industry
From Steam to Signal: Vinyl’s Material Uprising in the Digital Age.
System Hacks
The Loudspeaker on the Rooftop: Zé do Caroço Turned a Favela Into a Voice
Before WhatsApp groups, community radios, and favela podcasts, one man turned his rooftop into a newsroom.
Random Urgencies
Soundproof Childhoods: Autism in the Crossfire
The mothers of Complexo do Alemão are building more than safe rooms. They’re building a new definition of public safety.
Ancestral Echoes
Reclaiming the Canvas: Thirty Years of Decolonising the Lusophone Imagination in São Tomé
Over the past three decades, local artists, educators, and community leaders have used creativity to resist colonial legacies, rebuild identity, and reimagine what it means to be part of the Lusophone world.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Brasil 2408: When the World Ends, Who Gets to Rebuild It?
Afro-Brazilian Futurism, Climate Apocalypse, and the Revolutionary Power of Ancestral Memory.
System Hacks
Obrigado, Donald — How Trump’s Tariff Tantrum Might Backfire in Brazil
Trump’s 50% tariff, meant to defend Bolsonaro, may end up uniting Brazil against both authoritarianism and foreign meddling.