
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.
System Hacks
Before WhatsApp groups, community radios, and favela podcasts, one man turned his rooftop into a newsroom.
Random Urgencies
The mothers of Complexo do Alemão are building more than safe rooms. They’re building a new definition of public safety.
Ancestral Echoes
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
Afro-Brazilian Futurism, Climate Apocalypse, and the Revolutionary Power of Ancestral Memory.
System Hacks
A new generation of Brazilians is redefining nationalism—not as a weapon of the right, but as a tool of resistance and dignity.
System Hacks
Trump’s 50% tariff, meant to defend Bolsonaro, may end up uniting Brazil against both authoritarianism and foreign meddling.
System Hacks
The Network of Civil Resistance Preparing for Brazil’s Next Ballot Battle.
Ancestral Echoes
In the forgotten interior of Brazil, Niéde Guidon unearthed something older than myth and more fragile than truth: evidence that we arrived long before we thought.
Street Syntax
It doesn’t ask for attention. It steals it. Literatura Marginal is not an offshoot—it’s a rupture. Born in blood, beats, and broken Portuguese, this literary insurgency rewrites Brazil from the ruins up.
Sonic Cartographies
How a bedroom studio movement born in Latin America's underground became reggaetón's most radical reinvention
System Hacks
Can elite environmentalism protect the Amazon, or does it repeat colonial logic in a greener disguise?
Shifting Grounds
From medieval alleys to motorway gridlocks, Lisbon performs modernity while choking on its own choreography.