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The Future of Democracy/O futuro da democracia
I was interviewed by Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva for the BRaS blog about the future of democracy in Brazil. The interview in English can be read here.
Segue a entrevista em português. Agradeço a Luiz Eduardo Garcia da Silva, Anna Paula Bennech, Cláudia Pires e Giovanna Imbernon.… Read the rest
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The evil eye: Baldwin e a oração (one problem and two languages)
There’s this majestic passage in James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk:
… Read the rest“What I was learning was beginning to frighten me to death. If you look steadily into that unblinking blue, into that pinpoint at the center of the eye, you discover a bottomless cruelty, a viciousness cold and icy.
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A wound is reopened
My text appeared in the Collector’s Booklet, as part of the DVD (Music Box, 2018) of Daniela Thomas’s Vazante:
Vazante is a piercing portrait of the exploitation and suffering that mark slaveholding societies. The plot takes us to the early 19th century, on the eve of Brazil’s independence from Portugal.… Read the rest
