Place of Discourse and Folklore of the African Diaspora
On being white and talking about racism. How to witness and learn from Afro-Brazilian stories of resistance, through lenses free from the objectifying effects of the white gaze.
Sometimes Coordinated, Always Authentic: Terrorism prevention efforts apply to G&R
Facebook's efforts to detect and eradicate “coordinated inauthentic behavior" by Russian meddlers is a pretext to suppress political activism and counter-hegemonic initiatives.
Against All Oppression
Gods & Radicals supports the right for All to live peacefully, without harm from those in power. There are no ifs and buts nor exceptions to the rule.
On Plastic Straws and the Coming Collapse
When you look at what is needed to slow down or stop Climate Change and the destruction of the environment that sustains human life, you get confronted with an awful reality. That reality? There is literally no significant change that will not also deeply harm vulnerable people or infringe upon some modern freedom we now conceive as vital, inherent, and inalienable.
The Common Ground Between Anarchists and Maoists
“Brazilian Anarchists and Maoists are both being criminalized for dissent that could undermine the government’s ability to function.”
Outlaw Women
“if Rights were ensured to everyone, the Government would have to become something else entirely. It would have to cease to be.”
This is America’s Enslaver Culture
It’s no surprise that, even though chattel slavery was formally abolished throughout the Americas over 100 years ago, enslaver culture is still very much alive.
The Apocalypse Will Be Brought To You by Car, Not Truck
“Cars are bourgeois and trucks are proletarian.” An analysis of the truck-driver’s strike and diesel crisis in Brazil.
The Leadership and Legacy of Indigenous Women
April was Indigenous Month in Brazil. This article reports on the Leadership of Indigenous Women conference in Salvador, and explores the personal and communal journey of indigenous women through generations.
The Identity Politics Glitch
“When neoliberals ask for “diversity”, or more opportunities for the disenfranchised to franchise themselves, what they want is to hand out “white masks” to people of colour as if it’s charity.”
State Terrorism: A Genocidal Tool of Social Control
An article that explores the culture of fear as a tool for establishing the Power of a capitalist, neocolonial, and genocidal governmental system.
Mourning a Tree and Denouncing a System
From the microcosm of personal grief, to Western civilization's atrocities throughout the ages.
What does calling Brazilian women “sexy” actually mean?
An article on the impact colonialism has in the lives of Brazilian women today.
Faerie Queens, Worker Revolts, and the FBI
What do men dressed as women giving eviction notices in the name of a faerie queen and the FBI have in common?