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The Post-Pandemic World of Favelas and Urban Peripheries: New Social and Economic Paradigms?

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Catherine Osborn • September 17, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impact on the favelas and is also part of our reporting partnership with The Rio Times. For the article as published in The […]

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Imbariê Arts Festival Celebrates Gathering, Puts Rio’s Peripheries on the Map as Art Producers [IMAGES]

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Edmund Ruge • November 28, 2019

Clique aqui para Português The third edition of the Imbariê Arts Festival (FAIM) took place November 15 in Duque de Caxias, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region. The FAIM is a […]

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BaixadaCine Film Club Looks to Turn Belford Roxo Into the ‘City of Love’ for Film

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Edmund Ruge • November 11, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Challenges to the production of culture in Brazil have imposed themselves more and more in 2019. In only ten months, we have already heard the announcement of theater closings, the risk […]

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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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The Experience of a Trans Man Living on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • August 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of the ongoing series Challenges of Living in Magé. Fifty years after the Stonewall Uprising, the LGBTQI+ community continues to face countless challenges. The lives of gay […]

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