We are thrilled to announce our new long-term collaboration: CROSSINGS—TRAVESSIAS. Together with the Brazilian publishing platform Piseagrama, we will be working together to translate into English a series of Afro-Brazilian, indigenous and LGBTQIA+ texts, originally published in Portuguese by Piseagrama. Founded in 2010, Piseagrama is an open-access, non-profit publishing platform, whose mission is to catalyze urgent ideas, build bridges between fields of knowledge, and bring people together to imagine possible futures in alliance with LGBTQIA+, Afro-Brazilian, indigenous, peasant, and urban resistance collectives. As a first collective effort, CROSSINGS—TRAVESSIAS has been inaugurated with Becoming Savage, an essay by Indigenous activist and educator Jerá Guarani, in which she reflects on the alarming conditions of planet Earth brought about by so-called “civilized” people. The text has originally been published in 2020 by Piseagrama.
