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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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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