Ancestral Echoes
Yanuni: The Forest Is Not a Metaphor
No violins, no saviors. Just Indigenous women defending the Amazon on their terms.
Ancestral Echoes
Where the past whispers futures.
Ancestral Echoes
What Happens When Ancestral Street Food Becomes Cultural Heritage?
Follow the Women Who Keep the Amazon Boiling — how Tacacazeiras Just Became Brazil’s Newest Cultural Powerhouse.
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Today Is Indigenous Consciousness Day. Brazil Is Still Learning What That Means.
As Brazil marks Indigenous Consciousness Day, the gap between ceremonial recognition and material justice for Indigenous peoples remains painfully wide.
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While the State Stumbles, Guinea-Bissau’s Youth Are Saving the Future
On the beaches of Guinea-Bissau, young people are guarding thousands of turtle eggs while the state stumbles — choosing long-term survival over short-term chaos.
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Pretoguês: About A Brasil That Never Spoke With One Voice
Why the myth of a monolingual nation still shapes power, memory, and who gets to belong.
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Brazil Just Launched Its First Indigenous Federal University, the Most Radical Institution the Country Has Ever Built
Designed with Indigenous leaders and rooted in 270 languages, the new university rewires Brazil’s academic system from the ground up — and from the forest outward.
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Complexo Brasil at Gulbenkian: Where Beauty Refuses to Hide the Fire Beneath
A blockbuster show that refuses to let Portugal keep pretending Brazil is just colour, rhythm and saudade.
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When Culture Becomes Contraband: Orixás Under Fire
When a drawing sparks a police raid and a woman is stabbed for practicing her faith, it’s clear: intolerance isn’t rising quietly — it’s arriving armed.
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The Town That Speaks Four Languages: A Hidden Republic of Resistance
In São Gabriel da Cachoeira, words aren’t decoration — they’re defiance.
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Before the Crown, the Headdress: Reframing Brazil's Origin Story
A recent documentary and a new generation of Indigenous leaders are dismantling Brazil’s colonial creation myth — proving that history didn’t begin in 1500, and it certainly didn’t begin with a crown.
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The Heat Was Never the Problem ...
Colonial theories of "tropical inferiority" still haunt Brazil — now Black artists are burning them down.
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Postcards from the Plantation: Brazil’s Tropical Dream Rebranded
From Freyre’s erotic myths to Instagram’s filtered favelas, Brazil keeps remixing colonial desire into a pop aesthetic called “diversity.”