The Dehumanizing Narrative Around Police Killings in Rio de Janeiro
Trigger warning: violence and death. Photos by Fabio Teixeira, taken on February 11, 2022 in Vila Cruzeiro, Rio de janeiro. The content...
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- Feb 25, 2022
Environmental Protection Of Brazil's Atlantic Forest At The Local Level
The debate of whether or not to vote, or for whom, ought to be replaced with the conversation of whether voting is the only way to be...
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- Jan 19, 2022
Viruses And Colonization: Humanity’s Hate Affair With Mosquitoes
It feels like we live in unprecedented times, and, indeed, no one alive has witnessed a viral pandemic of this magnitude before. This...
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- Dec 15, 2021
bell hooks: the future will be forever marked by your legacy
It's with great sadness that we learn of the passing of one of the most influential feminist voices — bell hooks. She was an inspiration...
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- Nov 30, 2021
All That Which Mini Ponds Can Teach
The average citizen knows very little about nature and their local ecosystems. It has become easier for us to imagine a mosquito that is...
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- Oct 27, 2021
Brazil’s Most Effective Anti-fascist Strategy
In my view, Africana womanism has been the most effective anti-fascist strategy Brazil has ever seen, tackling all realms of oppression...
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- Oct 21, 2021
Cuando No Seguir el Instinto
In English here. El último sábado de agosto, prendí las luces del balcón e una nube de termitas corrió hacia las lámparas. Se arrojaron...
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- Oct 19, 2021
Anarcho-transcreation
In English as pocket-book and PDF. Quem lê, já leu uma tradução. Mesmo que o texto não seja uma tradução, ele possivelmente alude a uma....
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- Oct 17, 2021
Stop Trying To Save Indigenous People
Indigenous people in Brazil mirror the situation of those displaced by war, in the sense that they don’t comply with the principle of...
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- Oct 10, 2021
72: John of Fraud (w/ Lisa Braun Dubbels and Mirna Wabi-Sabi)
Show Notes Whatever one’s conception of “God” is, “John of God” should now be a nauseating name. For decades, João Teixeira de Faria...
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- Sep 30, 2021
To help Indigenous people in Brazil, let’s challenge our own violence
Rather than looking to ‘save’ others, we should aim to dismantle the hatred and exploitation of those who reject property and national...
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- Aug 20, 2021
Feminism As Veiled Islamophobia Dominates Discourse About Afghanistan
Banning burkinis, the War on Terror and the US occupation of Afghanistan have nothing to do with improving the lives of women. Why, then,...
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- Jul 31, 2021
Investment In Public Transportation That Exacerbates Inequality
“Government investments in public transport systems may very well be exacerbating inequality due to their direct ties with the global...
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- Jul 31, 2021
How Design Delivers Paradoxical Answers To Capitalism
A crise tríplice que vivemos no momento — financeira, sanitária e climática — revela o caráter paradoxal do discurso capitalista.
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- Jun 29, 2021
“Savagery” In Guatemala Stems From U.s. Foreign Policy – Not Mayan Civilization
"Bloodthirsty savagery", which is often attributed to the Mayan people, far better describes U.S. foreign policy than any pre-Columbian...
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- May 22, 2021
Under The Banner Of Progress: Brazil’s Largest Anti-illegal Logging Operation
In 2015, Brazil “produced” 136 million cubic meters of logs, worth about 250 million US dollars. In Brazil, ‘timber’ and ‘wood’ are the...
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- Apr 30, 2021
Brazil, Between Life And Death
“This photo-journalistic work has as main objective to show the reality of emergency rooms, the lives of people in favelas of Rio de...
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- Mar 29, 2021
Fanon’s Death And The Ever-expanding Global American Periphery
Few things paint a clearer picture of the insidious nature of American Imperialism than the CIA’s approach towards African anti-colonial...
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- Feb 1, 2021
Virtual Vandalism And The Dispute Against Leftists
"We mistakenly attribute the concept of vandalism to what is ‘marginal,’ and rarely to what is 'central,' when the term should apply to...
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- Jan 9, 2021
Getting Rid Of Trump Doesn’t Treat The Pervasive Toxicity Of ‘American Democracy’
"'Fidelity to the rule of law' may now be a sentiment that serves our fleeting motivation to get rid of Trump, but it will never rescue...
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