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,...
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...
How a Brazilian farm operating on land seized by the Movement of Landless Workers in the 1990s is pointing the way to an alternative to modern industrial-scale livestock farming. When...
How Brazil’s last military junta set scientific progress back by targeting top scientists and systematically destroying the country’s research ecosystem The last few weeks have seen Donald Trump lambast 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,...
Uncovering long lost letters written during Brazil’s military dictatorship Journalism’s dirty secret isn’t always nepotism. Sometimes, it’s luck! This couldn’t hold any more true for the Lisbon-based journalist, researcher and...
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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