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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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Where the past whispers futures.
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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.
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The Art of Patience: Slow Food, Wild Walks, and a Life in Ferment
Whether in a jar or along a trail, Fermen.table is cultivating more than taste—it’s restoring a rhythm that modern life has forgotten: slow, local, and quietly alive.
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A Feathered Disguise: Cultural Appropriation, Congressional Edition
When a party that destroys Indigenous lands puts on feathers to speak for them, it’s not representation — it’s theatre.
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The Poisoned Earth: Agrotoxins, Monoculture, and the Betrayal of Indigenous Sanctuaries
When rivers carry poison instead of fish, it’s not just nature that’s dying—it’s memory, ritual, and the right to exist.
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Not Quite Home: The Story of the Dekassegui
Japanese-Brazilians came with papers, promises, and shared ancestry—yet still found themselves on the margins.
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Operação Angola and the Generation That Escaped to Free a Continent
In a year of guns and shadows, they chose flight over silence. The road to liberation began in the corridors of a student dormitory.
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Erasing Exu: The Right-Wing Crusade Against Afro-Brazilian Faith
How Brazil’s Evangelical Right Is Erasing the Orisha to Reclaim a Whitewashed Nation