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.
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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.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Uncredited and Iconic: Lena Frias, The Journalist Who Heard Brazil Before It Spoke Itself
Long before representation became a policy, she was already documenting it — with a pen that danced to the beat of a silenced majority.
Ancestral Echoes
Forget Greta: These River Warriors Are Taking Climate Activism to Another Level
The Yaku Mama flotilla is bringing the fight for climate justice straight to the doorstep of next year's UN summit — by boat.
System Hacks
When Modernism Went Underground: How Exiled Artists Punked Vargas’s Brazil
The dictatorship wanted unity. The exiles gave it noise, color, and chaos.
Sonic Cartographies
Future Is Ancestral: Inside Brazil’s Indigenous Trap Wave
A generation raised between Wi-Fi and ritual is rewriting what modern Brazil sounds like — and proving that tradition can dance in the dark.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Can Art Heal and Denounce at the Same Time?
Afrotela + COLORS at Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Oct 9th
Coded Dreams
From the Sertão to the Server: Brazil's Digital Backlands and the Ghosts of Hunger
How Brazil’s most stigmatized region hacked the algorithm, rewired its accent, and turned drought into data.
Random Urgencies
Danke: The Chocolate Empire and the Blood on Bahia’s Soil
Paradise as product — how speculation, silence, and militias rewrite Indigenous maps.
Ancestral Echoes
The Exotic Alibi: How Europe Still Uses Brazil to Forget Itself
A brief history of European thinkers finding salvation in Brazil — and erasing Brazilians in the process.
Diaspora Aesthetics
2050 Came Early — and LatimLove Was Holding the Needle
When fabric, language, and memory meet, the border dissolves — and Latin America finally sees itself reflected.