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‘Education and Favelas’ Seminar Discusses Challenges for Education in Favelas and Peripheries

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Dylan Blau Edelstein • September 17, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On September 3, the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) hosted the “Education and Favelas” seminar, organized by UERJ’s Education and City Research Nucleus (NUPEC), with support from the Metropolitan Ethnography […]

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Trapicheiros Residents Celebrate Launch of Sustainable Playground and Proposed Regularization Bill

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Cheyne Bull • August 28, 2019

Clique Aqui para Português  On August 10, residents of the small and intimate Trapicheiros favela in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone organized a traditional winter festival “June party” (though this one was organized in August)—to […]

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Fourth Annual Black July: Favelas Fight Racism, Part 1—LGBTphobia and Favela Resistance

By Carla Souza • Translation by Edmund Ruge • August 3, 2019

Clique aqui para Português This is the first of two articles on Black July, now in its fourth annual iteration. Both articles focus on the three roundtable discussions that took place on July 25, day […]

by Community Contributors

Collectives Debate the Role of Women in Baixada Politics

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • July 24, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Saturday, July 13th, a roundtable titled “Women in Baixada Politics” took place at the headquarters of the State Union of Education Professionals (SEPE) in the city of Duque de Caxias, in […]

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Maré Cheia Organizes Itinerant Poetry Battle in Maré’s Favelas

By Miriane Peregrino • Translation by Gabriel Martins • July 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, June 30, the third edition of the Maré Cheia Slam poetry battle took place at the Parque União Skate Park in the Complexo da Maré favelas, in Rio’s North Zone. […]

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