Shifting Grounds
No Borders on the Waves: Surf Farm Caparica Makes the Ocean a Space of Belonging
Once a pastime of the privileged, surfing is being reimagined as a tool of liberation for migrants and refugees.
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Diaspora Aesthetics
Skamosa and the Pulse of Urban Amazon Resistance
A cultural collective reclaims Manaus’s forgotten spaces, pulsing with radiola traditions and Indigenous futures.
Street Syntax
Carreta Furacão: Brazil’s Meme Truck of Chaos and Joy
A truck, some dollar-store superhero suits, and pure chaotic energy—inside Brazil’s strangest pop-cultural export.
System Hacks
Flamengo on Trial: Racism, Football, and the Price of a Nation’s Game
A R$100 million lawsuit shows how Flamengo embodies the contradiction of Brazilian football: diverse on the pitch, exclusive off it.
Sonic Cartographies
Gilberto Gil: Doctor of Rhythm, Minister of Difference
From Tropicália to cultural policy, Brazil’s most visionary musician is honored not just for his songs, but for reshaping what democracy sounds like.
Ancestral Echoes
The Meteorite Underground: Brazil’s All-Female Team Fighting for Cosmic Heritage
How Brazil’s As Meteoríticas are battling black markets, bad laws, and burned archives to preserve the oldest rocks in the solar system.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Resistir Para Existir: An Artistic Rebellion Unfolds in Maputo
In Mozambique's capital, a radical artistic residency is rewriting the rules of cultural resistance.
Street Syntax
Mushrooms, Money, and Memory: Brazil’s Psychedelic Dilemma
From sacred forest remedies to multimillion-real farms and global wellness hype, psilocybin sits at the fault line of Indigenous knowledge, capitalist rebranding, and Brazil’s war on drugs.
Sonic Cartographies
Hermeto Pascoal and the Unbound Geography of Sound
In an age when climate catastrophe forces us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world, a forty-year-old performance in a Brazilian cave system reads like prophecy.
Diaspora Aesthetics
From Salon to Feed: The Persistence of Visual Apartheid
Arthur Timótheo vs. The Algorithm. Canvas as propaganda. Oil as algorithm. The first filters weren't digital—they were brushstrokes.
Coded Dreams
Chavoso da USP: The Periphery’s Professor
How a gay kid from Brasilândia became a new kind of Brazilian intellectual—unfiltered, fearless, and impossible to ignore.
Ancestral Echoes
The Living Archive: How Brazil's Native Communities Are Reclaiming Their Skin
Where Timeless Patterns Meet Electric Needles and Ancestral Knowledge Becomes Living Archive.