System Hacks
Gavião Kyikatejê and the Long Road to Recognition
In the heart of the Amazon, Brazil's first professional Indigenous football club is proving that belonging in the beautiful game isn't about assimilation—it's about authenticity.
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Random Urgencies
COP30: Recycling the Rhetoric, Dumping the People
While world leaders rehearse speeches about saving the Amazon, Brazil is quietly preparing to bury its climate shame—literally—on top of quilombola communities. Welcome to COP30. Don’t forget your biodegradable lanyard.
Sonic Cartographies
Louder Than Permission: The Untamed Life Of Fluxo Da Rua
Fluxo da Rua, a spontaneous and often criminalised form of street gathering, is as much about visibility as it is about music. It may not seek approval, but it demands to be understood.
Random Urgencies
Racing Toward the Abyss: Climate Fiction or Contemporary Reality?
In Ignácio de Loyola Brandão’s "And Still the Earth," Brazil’s descent into environmental and social ruin was fiction in 1981. Now, it reads like an accelerated prophecy of the Anthropocene.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Beyond Representation: Gustavo Paixão and the Decolonial Eye of Brazilian Fashion
How Gustavo Paixão Is Reclaiming Fashion’s Visual Language for Indigenous Brazil
Street Syntax
Crunch, Culture, and Cane Juice: Pastel isn’t just a snack
How a Deep-Fried Mashup Became São Paulo’s Street Food Icon — an edible archive of immigration, hustle, and Sampa-style survival.
Sonic Cartographies
When the Police Start Reading Your Lyrics in Court, You Know the Culture War Turned Real
How Brazil Turns Art Into Evidence—and Why the Real Crime is Censorship.
Street Syntax
Marta and the Myth of the Equal Game
How one woman rewrote the rules while playing by them.
Ancestral Echoes
Marching Between Worlds: Indigenous Women Are Redefining Power from the Ground Up
As extractive capitalism threatens the planet's lungs, Brazil's Indigenous women offer something more radical than resistance: a blueprint for survival.
Sonic Cartographies
Noise Is Queen: Deize Tigrona's Two-Decade Revolution
From favela frequencies to global stages, the queen of Brazilian funk refuses to turn down.
Street Syntax
From Terraces to TikTok: Betting on a Crisis
From TikTok teens betting on corner kicks to match-fixing scandals, Brazil’s national sport is spiraling into a casino of despair—and no one’s pulling the plug.
Diaspora Aesthetics
A Brush Against Erasure: Maria Auxiliadora's Return to the Bienal
The 36th Bienal de São Paulo opens its archives and its halls to an artist once ignored, transforming institutional memory into an act of cultural restitution.