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Favelados 2.0: The Importance of Maker Culture in Favelas

By Debora Pio • Translation by Alice Lupton • February 16, 2016

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Debora Pio in Portuguese published in Viva Favela click here. A team of favela residents involved in web culture and who develop their own projects using digital platforms are […]

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Favelas’ Love Affair With Social Media: 2015 Roundup and Predictions for 2016

By Ruth Faulkner • January 25, 2016

Clique aqui para Português When foreign journalists visit Rio de Janeiro wishing to report on favela community news, they quickly come to find themselves relying on social media. Many are surprised at how Brazil in general and favela […]

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What’s Your Narrative? Alemão’s Raull Santiago on the Future of Media

By Raull Santiago • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • December 9, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raull Santiago* in Portuguese published by Coletivo Papo Reto click here. We live in a society where the spectacle of pain is something that can be commercialized, so […]

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Five Black Favela Youth Machine-Gunned Dead in Car by Military Police

By Felicity Clarke • December 2, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Five youths were machine-gunned dead inside a car by Military Police in the Complexo da Pedreira favela in Costa Barros in the North Zone of Rio. Wilton Esteves Domingos Júnior, aged 20, […]

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A Feminist Spring? Women and Women’s Issues on the March in Brazil

By Cerianne Robertson • November 18, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Women in Brazil are on the march. That’s true in a literal sense, as women put boots-on-the-ground today in Brasília for the annual national Black Women’s March, and in recent weeks in […]

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