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Beatriz Miranda

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Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
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Journalist from Brazil. Brazilian culture stories for @nytimes @washingtonpost @guardian @bbc @vice @billboard and elsewhere. Co-editor at Meia Volta.

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Beatriz Miranda’s Biography

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Journalist and International Relations graduate from Brazil.

Co-editor at Meia Volta.

Former music critic at theshfl.com

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'Agriculture of life': the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world's largest urban fore...

'Agriculture of life': the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world's largest urban fore...

In the middle of the city, traditional growers blend crops with native species to preserve the world's larges…

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Ecology As an Artistic Act

Ecology As an Artistic Act

In the encounter of two Brazilian biomes, an art school is seeding a greener future. Placing ecology, communa…

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In Brazil's 'water tank', communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

In Brazil's 'water tank', communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

SERRO, Minas Gerais - Nature has always been intrinsic to life in Queimadas, a quilombo community located in …

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'This janitor's daughter became a state deputy': Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned co...

'This janitor's daughter became a state deputy': Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned co...

Born in poverty, Brandão became a socially conscious samba singer who satirised Rio's bourgeoisie - then a po…

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How Brazilian Women Challenged Slavery and Patriarchy Through Food

How Brazilian Women Challenged Slavery and Patriarchy Through Food

In Brazil, quitanda goes beyond the kitchen. Before the dish became a local culinary symbol, it helped fuel a…

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'We can't hunt or fish': the villages in Ecuador's Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

'We can't hunt or fish': the villages in Ecuador's Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolit…

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‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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The Amazon rainforest near Sarayakillo. Nature has similar legal rights to humans under Ecuador’s constitution. Photograph: Watachik Living on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Indigenous communities in Sarayaku have always lived in harmony with nature. The rainforest, says Patricia Gualinga, is a sacred, conscious being.
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Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened

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Women from the quilombo community of Monte Alegre collect babaçu coconuts, although some have to be coaxed from the tree using a long pole Women from the quilombo community of Monte Alegre collect babaçu coconuts, although some have to be coaxed from the tree using a long pole Photograph: Kristin Bethge/The Guardian Early on a Saturday morning in Monte Alegre, five women are out in the forest, deftly smacking fist-sized brown coconuts on a blade.
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Brazil Has Never Had a Black Woman on Its Supreme Court. This Movement May Change That

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In a short Brazilian film starring an all-Black cast, a young girl frees her imagination on what she can become when she grows up. Dressing up like her role models, she plays with becoming a singer like Iza, an athlete like Daiane dos Santos, and a writer like Conceição Evaristo — all successful Brazilian Black women. At some point, her mother asks, “But you know you could be a Supreme Court Minister, too, right?” The daughter becomes confused. “Like who, mom,” she asks.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter at The Rio Times.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Unfortunately not.

How is social media changing news?

The polyphony and the new space-time relation are challenging the old monopoly of information.
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