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Maria Felipa Burned It All Down (And We're Still Feeling the Heat)
How a Barefoot Revolutionary Became Brazil's Underground Icon.
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Where the past whispers futures.
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Buried in the Trenches: The Black Battalion and Brazil’s Forgotten Heroes of 1932
They fought for a Constitution that never fought for them. Ninety years later, the silence around Brazil’s Black Battalion speaks louder than any monument.
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The Body Remembers: Capoeira, Parkinson’s, and the Dance of Resilience
Afro-Brazilian capoeira is giving Parkinson’s patients in Rio more than balance—it’s giving them back their connection to life.
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Tereza de Benguela: Queen of the Unforgotten
Not a myth, not a memory—Tereza was a strategy. And her legacy still shapes the fight for justice across Brazil.
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Drawing from the Ashes: Post-Conflict Art in Timor-Leste
From freestyle rap battles to thread-based ritual installations, young artists in Timor-Leste are reclaiming their future through underground sound, sacred memory, and community-led aesthetics.
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The Right to Be Seen: Afro-Brazilian Culture Reclaims Public Space
Erasure was policy. Visibility is resistance.
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The Center Holds: Lélia Gonzalez and the Black Soul of Brazil
From Samba to Sociology, How Lélia Gonzalez Shaped Brazil’s Radical Black Consciousness.
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Reclaiming the Canvas: Thirty Years of Decolonising the Lusophone Imagination in São Tomé
Over the past three decades, local artists, educators, and community leaders have used creativity to resist colonial legacies, rebuild identity, and reimagine what it means to be part of the Lusophone world.
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Echoes in Stone: Niéde Guidon and the Deep Time of Brazil
In the forgotten interior of Brazil, Niéde Guidon unearthed something older than myth and more fragile than truth: evidence that we arrived long before we thought.
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The Future Is Not an App: Ailton Krenak and the Revolt of the Living World
What if the future isn’t something to invent, but something to remember? Ailton Krenak dares to ask what humanity has forgotten in its rush toward oblivion.
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Dandara: The Forgotten Strategist Who Resisted Slavery and Redefined Power
Long before feminist theory had a name, Dandara dos Palmares was putting it into practice. A rebel. A leader. A woman who chose death over submission.
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Mascot of the Apocalypse: Backward Feet, Forward Lies
Curupira was never meant to be cute. Why climate summits love Indigenous symbols but ignore Indigenous sovereignty.