Street Syntax
Brazil's Holy War Is Run by Cops Who Deal Drugs
The politicians screaming about "law and order" in Rio are literally on the payroll of armed gangs. And it gets so much worse.
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Ancestral Echoes
The greatest massacre in Rio de Janeiro began 525 years ago. And it never ended.
Indigenous activist and writer Yakuy Tupinambá exposes how state violence against Black and Indigenous peoples continues the unfinished project of colonization.
Sonic Cartographies
In a Wrong Environment, Creativity Itself Becomes a Crime
When a community studio is destroyed and called a gang base, it reveals more than fear — it exposes who gets to create, and who must stay silent.
Random Urgencies
Necropolitics in Rio: When Public Safety Becomes State Murder
Over a hundred dead in a single raid expose what Rio still calls order: a colonial logic that turns public security into state-sanctioned sacrifice.
Shifting Grounds
Portugal Is Eating Itself Alive — And Calling It Tourism
Inside the polemic shaking the postcard paradise.
Diaspora Aesthetics
When a Language Falls Silent: Ecoar and the Art of Relearning How to Listen
A festival between Lisbon and Luanda reimagines Lusophony through forgotten tongues, ancestral echoes, and the radical act of listening.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Black Gaze: How Afro-Portuguese Filmmakers Are Reclaiming the Lens
Lisbon likes to film itself in warm light. From the golden haze of Lisbon Story to the melancholic nostalgia of Fado-soaked dramas, Portugal’s cinema has long been obsessed with memory — but rarely its own.
Sonic Cartographies
Armadilhas do Amor: When R&B Turns Into Witchcraft in Rio
Inside the humid nights of Rio’s periphery, where emotions echo louder than basslines.
Sonic Cartographies
They Danced. The State Panicked: How Black Rio Rewired Brazil’s 70s
When joy became a threat to Brazil’s dictatorship.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Brazil Core™: Periphery Becomes Product — and the Algorithm Blushes
A story of how the world packaged Brazilian chaos into chic harmony — and what happens when the source starts talking back.
Random Urgencies
The Amazon Is Hosting the World. The Ocean Is Hosting the Rigs.
Everyone’s preaching climate salvation — meanwhile, the oil rigs are already warming up offshore. A love letter to planetary contradiction.
Street Syntax
These Portuguese Cartoon Vandals Are Aging Like Expired Milk and Loving Every Second
Germes Gang treats adulthood like a narc at a house party — ignore it long enough and maybe it’ll leave.