memory
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Sugar exports
Although it may not seem so, there are central themes that present themselves each month in the making of this blog’s posts. Elections aside, this month the theme is ancestry. I thought the best way to begin this theme would be to review an article to which I was able to contribute in the collection…
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Public policies
Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives on time, the vaccine that reaches the health center, the school that opens its doors, the storm alert that arrives on your phone. None of this happens by chance. All…
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The editing of reality
We are in 2026, another election year in Brazil. And, as happens with every election, we have already begun to see circulating on social networks and in family groups those messages that mix truth, half-truth, and invention. Edited videos, cut audio, suppressed contexts. None of this is new. What is new, perhaps, is the speed…
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July 30: the day the world embroiders!
July 30. Somewhere in São Tomé and Príncipe, someone starts a new embroidery. In a library in Canada, a group gathers to sew and chat. In England, a museum opens space for workshops. In different cities across Brazil, needles pierce fabrics, hands meet, and stories continue to be told. Perhaps, on this very day, you…
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Botanical embroidery
This year, almost all of my embroideries have been botanical. Leaves, flowers, branches, roots. It wasn’t a conscious decision. It just happened. Today I think my unconscious already knew what my hands were looking for. This story began in college. Curiously, although I majored in Library and Information Science, it was there that I came…
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The forest is not virgin (and never was)
When we think of the Amazon, what comes to mind? Dense forest. Giant trees. Untouched nature, far from human presence. For a long time, that is how we learned to imagine the largest tropical forest on the planet. But archaeology, ecology, and anthropology have been showing that this image is incomplete. The Amazon remains one…
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Celts
I have written quite a bit about the Celts on this blog. But I realized I never explained who these peoples were and why they appear so often here. Egyptian culture is everywhere. Cinema, literature, documentaries, games, novels… Almost everyone has heard of the pyramids, Isis, Osiris, or Anubis. The Celts, on the other hand,…