Clique aqui para Português This week marks the second annual Black July, following a series of events one year ago when Black Lives Matter activists visited with organizers in Rio de Janeiro. The series of […]
Clique aqui para Português The world was shocked earlier this year when a video went viral of Dandara dos Santos, a trans woman from the state of Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil, being tortured […]
Although the Olympics are long gone in Rio, a legacy remains of incomplete infrastructure, evicted residents’ struggle for fair compensation, and the aftermath of displacement. The Games move on to increasing opposition in future host cities, both committed and […]
Clique aqui para Português Fighting to continue to make space for often-silenced voices, the Evictions Museum, Vila Autodromo and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro partnered to offer a three-day course entitled “Social Museology: Poetics […]
Clique aqui para Português No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch, written by Chris Dempsey and Andrew Zimbalist, author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics […]