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The Land Teaches Us: Collective Knowledge-Building from Women’s Body-Territories

By Aline Lima, Mariana Praça • Translation by Lee Weingast • April 9, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Aline Lima and Marina Praça—community educators and directors of the Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone (PACS)—published on Medium click here.  What […]

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7 Fantastic Afro-Brazilian Women and Their ‘Everyday Politics’ [PROFILE]

By Marcela Lisboa, Thamyra Thamara de Araújo • Translation by Joana Chetwynd • January 22, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original articles in Portuguese by Thamyra Thâmara de Araújo and Marcela Lisboa published by Agência Naya on Medium, click here. To listen to the full interviews in Portuguese, click here. […]

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‘Black July’ Organizers Unite Against Racism, Militarization in Latin America, Africa, Middle East

By Paula Peña • June 25, 2018

Clique aqui para Português It’s 3pm on a cloudy Saturday and, as more people file through the entrance of Instituto Raízes em Movimento (Roots in Movement Institute) in Complexo do Alemão, what initially seemed like a […]

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Favela Museum ‘Museu da Maré’ Celebrates Twelve Years [IMAGES]

By Antoine Horenbeek • May 16, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The Museu da Maré (Maré Museum), focus of the third article of our 2018 Brazil Museum Week series also out today, was recognized in 2014 as a main tourist attraction by the […]

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Rocinha Celebrates Saint George’s Day With Devotion

By Edu Carvalho • Translation by Desirée Poets • April 26, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Over 250 kilos of fish, endless boxes full of fireworks, and white and red roses. The reason for this majestic party? The festivities of April 23 in Rocinha, the day on […]

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