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What happens when land becomes a financial asset? 

How corporations, pension funds, and other financial actors are driving land dispossession in Brazil Many people in cities across Europe and North America might be familiar with real estate speculation...

Remembering Waldirene Nogueira: a pioneer in sex redesignation in Brazil

Gender-affirming surgery under military dictatorship paved the way for better rights today Waldirene Nogueira was 26 when she sought gender-affirming surgery in Brazil. It was 1971, the middle of Brazil’s...

Dialogue with the dolls

Brazil moves to recognise trans language Pajubá as cultural heritage In the hidden cracks of Brazilian society, where queer communities continue to resist erasure, a secret language is flourishing. Pajubá,...

The ‘uberisation’ of psychology in Brazil

Digital platforms promising affordable mental health care are pushing psychologists into precarious gig-style work Published by Repórter Brasil and reported by Gabriel Daros, this investigation examines how online therapy platforms are reshaping...

A new era of espionage dawns in Brazil

A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app Cellular 007, originally marketed as a parental control tool Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Allan de Arbreu reveals...

Beauty and martyrdom

How aesthetic pressure sickens and isolates gay men In Diadorim, journalist Marie Declercq delivers an exploration into the tyranny of beauty within gay male culture ranging from Renaissance paintings to filtered...

Volkswagen Slave labour at Amazon cattle Ranch

In one of Brazil's most severe human rights cases, Volkswagen stands accused of luring hundreds of rural workers into brutal slavery between 1974 and 1986. Facing allegations, the automaker must...

War and Faith

The Strongest Drug A video from August 2020 on the YouTube channel of the missionary Nilton Pereira shows the evangelical preacher holding a bible in his hands. He is wearing a...

Cabo Delgado’s forgotten daughters

In Mozambique’s war-torn north, girls fleeing conflict face a second nightmare, including corruption, sexual exploitation and survival prostitution – inside displacement camps meant to protect them Since 2017, the province...

AI-generated Indigenous elders

Aos Fatos uncovers a digital deception that combines artificial intelligence with colonial mythmaking, all in the name of profit What happens when ancient wisdom is faked by machine learning and...

The Trump tariffs are also a matter of gender

Why tariffs disproportionately affect women. In Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo, journalist Bianca Santana notes the way in which the tariff wars accentuate an existing gender inequality in the global trade system,...

Lou Reed in Brazil

Black and white photographs in a Brazilian market send a writer down a rabbit hole into music legend The Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas...

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