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Collection of ‘Street Corner Poetry’ Launched in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God

By Jota Marques, Letícia Lemos • Translation by Cheyne Bull • February 7, 2019

Clique aqui para Português “Art is salvation? And then what?” challenges Deborah Fadiga in her poem “Art is Salvation!” The poem appears on page 53 of Street Corner Poetry: Collection Volume 0, a 242-page book that […]

#MarielleLegacy

The Path to Black, Female, Favela Representation in the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly

By Renata Queiroz Ramos • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • January 31, 2019

Clique aqui para Português In the 2018 Brazilian general election, voters elected officials at the federal and state levels (president, federal deputies, senators, governors, and state deputies). Among the state deputies elected in Rio de Janeiro are […]

#EvictionsWatch

Anything but ‘Urban Garbage’: Indigenous Resistance, Survival, and Resurgence in Rio de Janeiro

By Désirée Poets • January 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On January 4, O Globo reported on the assertion by state representative Rodrigo Amorim (of the far-right Brazilian Social Liberal Party–PSL) that Aldeia Maracanã—an urban indigenous community (aldeia means “village”) in Rio de Janeiro—is […]

#MarielleLegacy

Talíria Petrone Highlights Struggle for Basic Rights on 70th Anniversary of the UDHR

By Renata Queiroz Ramos • Translation by Sharon Gogar • December 24, 2018

Clique aqui para Português December 10 marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To commemorate the day, the 10th International Human Rights Seminar and the 14th National Seminar on Human Rights […]

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Role of Peripheries in Democracy is Focus of the Second Edition of the Peripheries Journal

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • December 17, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Published by the Maria and João Aleixo Institute (IMJA), a knowledge production institute that aims to break with the formalism and hierarchy of traditional academic institutions, Peripheries Journal is a bi-annual publication […]

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