We Belong to the Land

Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.

Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History

Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.

Fabricating the Dodo: the Making and Unmaking of a Bird

Revealing natural history museums’ politics of preservation and representation through an uncanny encounter with the most famous extinct bird.

Embargoed Memories

Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.

Named After Men

Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.