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Holiday in Manaus: The Dance That Saved Her Life
From the streets of Manaus to a psychology degree in São Paulo, Maria Solange’s viral dance to Madonna lit the fuse on an extraordinary second act.
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The grammar of walls, wheels, and rebellion.
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The Struggle Has a Motorcycle Engine: Paulo Galo, Lisbon, and the New Cartographies of Labor
From Brazil’s gig economy protests to Europe’s migrant frontlines, Galo de Luta maps the struggles that cross borders but share the same enemy.
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Drone Against the Dance: Policing Funk While Pretending to Honor It
When celebration becomes a crime, even drones are drafted into the policing of rhythm.
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From Geloucos to Labubu: How Capitalism Packaged Our Dreams
What Brazil’s toy obsessions reveal about nostalgia, identity, and the quiet rituals of emotional survival.
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No Grammar, No Mercy: Literatura Marginal and the Riot on the Page
It doesn’t ask for attention. It steals it. Literatura Marginal is not an offshoot—it’s a rupture. Born in blood, beats, and broken Portuguese, this literary insurgency rewrites Brazil from the ruins up.
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Novela Das Nove: Brazil's 9pm Spell and the Sonic Shadow of Soft Power
From Salvador to Santiago, the Brazilian telenovela became a nightly ritual—and a quiet force of regional dominance.
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Blessed by Bullets and Bibles: Narco-Pentecostalism on the rise
In Rio's favelas, AK-47s and prayer books go hand in hand as a new breed of narco-evangelicals rewrites the rules of crime and faith
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Not Your Novinha: The Rights of Girls Silenced by Catorze
Some numbers hide entire societies behind them. In Brazil’s urban peripheries, 14 is one such number. Whispered in memes, muttered in funk lyrics, etched into the margins of conversation, it is neither neutral nor innocent.
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The Glyph Code: When Cities Use AI to See Their Scars
Can a machine decode urban rebellion—or only erase it faster?
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The Streets Are Speaking: How Communities Reclaim Space by Any Means Necessary
What starts with paint and pallets becomes a philosophy of survival, protest, and belonging.
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Saints and Sinners: Why Gangs Became Brazil's Unlikely Tastemakers
In the favelas where the state fears to tread, criminal factions have become unlikely cultural curators, turning violence into art and survival into scripture.
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24 Is Not a Joke: The Secret Life of Brazil’s Most Stigmatized Number
Queerness, Superstition, and the Secret Codes of Brazil's Oldest Illegal Game.