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Frederico Freitas

@fredericofreitas.org
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Historian NC State. DH, Environment, LatAm. PhD: Stanford. BA: USP. Book www.cambridge.org/9781108844833. Brasileiro e Paulista. New project on Brasília (PT and EN)

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Humanistic AI conference at Duke (9/25-6), full schedule forthcoming but speaker/title list is up! We have an amazing line up - @tedunderwood.com @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social @eduede.bsky.social + others; if in area, please come! sites.duke.edu/humanisticai...
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Speakers – Humanistic AI Conference at Duke
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New open-access book: Marco Armiero's Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster. This is a translation of Armiero's 2023 book in Italian, finally available in English. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal! Courtesy of MIT Press. #envhist #envhum @mitpress.bsky.social
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Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster
Full open-access volume Vajont: The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster (2026) by Marco Armiero.
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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Galleys! I have been waiting for **years** to review this book-- since I met the translator in Brazil in 2014. She's been working on it since then. This translation will be published in January- a few months before my book on translated Latin American lit, in which this novel features prominently.
Cover of João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas in a new English translation by Alison Entrekin
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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We noticed how the concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/07/2026
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Trespassing — Sidecar
Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026).
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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 08/05/2026
Just this morning I got an email from IT asking for volunteers to test Canvas as we all are scheduled to migrate to it from Moodle in the next year or so at my University.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 21/04/2026
A little late on this, but this is an excellent review of Nationalizing History by @smunozar.bsky.social, who put me in conversation with María de los Ángeles Picone (@mapicone.bsky.social), Heather Roller, John Soluri, Juliet Wiersema, and Jeffrey Erbig. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Spatial Histories of the South American Borderlands | The Americas | Cambridge Core
Spatial Histories of the South American Borderlands - Volume 82 Issue 4
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Vision Language Models don’t just make transcription faster or cheaper - they will (hopefully) expand the kinds of sources we can access and work with” Very good post by @cblevins.bsky.social that perfectly captures my own experience.
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Bottlenecks, Side Quests, and the Calculus of Historical Research | Cameron Blevins
Personal website for Cameron Blevins (University of Colorado Denver)
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026
Book cover shows an alleyway in a Rio favela, the black and white photo has been given a bluish tinge; my name is upper left, the title of the book "Poverty of the Imagination" is at lower left and at right, in reddish text is the subtitle "The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America"
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 31/03/2026
Dorothea Dix, Raleigh.
A picture underneath a circular brick structure with a blue sky on the background.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 19/03/2026
Santa Cruz, CA
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
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Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.
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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1817
Paddington in The Secret Agent (2025)
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 04/02/2026
If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.
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Can we give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning? – The Nature of Cities
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/02/2026
Brazil has named açaí a national fruit to push back against biopiracy. The move is mostly symbolic, but aims to reinforce açaí as part of Brazil’s biodiversity heritage and make it harder for foreign companies to claim exclusive rights as global demand grows.
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Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns
Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about biopiracy — the commercial exploitation of native species and traditional…
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ncstatehistory.bsky.social @ncstatehistory.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We had an incredible time at the "Envisioning Urban Futures" event at Hunt Library! Dr. Matthew Booker spoke on the intersection of history, food production, and ecology in our cities. Dr. Tate Paulette gave a crowd-favorite expo presentation. Dr. Fred Freitas joined the fun!
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Marco Aurélio @marcurelio.jesusmechicoteia.com.br · 25/01/2026
O bico do carcará muda de cor conforme o estado de espírito. Quanto mais calmo, mais amarelo. Quanto mais irritado ou estressado, mais chega perto do vermelho. Esse aí tá claramente irritado vendo como carioca dirige.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
gah look at this! Look at the photos! and then read the interview because it's also amazing: globalvoices.org/2026/01/08/w...
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Where myth turns to form and fragility to power: An interview with Turkish artist Melis Buyruk
“Porcelain lives in our collective memory — we grow up with it in our homes and daily rituals — so it already carries meaning before I touch it.”
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“No vemos ningún intento, ni siquiera un tema de debate, el desmantelamiento de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana. Esto sería una tarea mucho más difícil para Estados Unidos. Realmente parece que Trump solo quería atrapar a una persona, Maduro,” le digo a @eldiario.es
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El exasesor de Sanders para América Latina analiza la operación en Venezuela: "El interés de Trump es el petróleo, no la democracia"
El analista y profesor de la Virginia Commonwealth University Michael Paarlberg cree que el escenario más probable es que el chavismo no caiga, sino que elija a un sucesor. "No parece haber ningún int...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/12/2025
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with
the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a
wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications
of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
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Journal of Latin American Geography @jlatamgeog.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Brannstrom notes that @fredericofreitas.org and Blanc are among the most recent scholars to focus on the dynamics of sertão, concept in Brazil’s historical geography, and welcomes their endeavor to better understand the relations beyond Brazil’s coastal settlements. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures (with Emine Saner for the @theguardian.com; #photography, #skystorians). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 15/10/2025
Berlin this afternoon.
A black and white picture of the St. Mary's Church’s tower perfectly aligned in front of the TV Tower in Berlin in an overcast day.
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
#workshop: "Teaching on Latin America and the Environment" Online Pedagogy Workshop, org. Emily Wakild & Frederico Freitas (RECSLAC) Deadline for registration: October 10, 2025 Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... @fredericofreitas.org #envhum #envhist #pedagogy #ecocriticism #teaching
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Call for Participants: Teaching on Latin America and the Environment - Online Pedagogy Workshop | H-Net
Registration is open for a one-day, online pedagogy workshop on integrating Latin American and Caribbean history of science and environmental history into teaching in adjacent fields.
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Pádua Fernandes @paduafernandes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Acabei de sair do ato dos 35 anos da abertura da Vala de Perus: blogdaboitempo.com.br/2025/09/04/d... #DesarquivandoBR
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Devolver a voz aos mortos da ditadura
Pádua Fernandes escreve sobre os 35 anos da descoberta da vala clandestina de Perus, usada pela ditadura para enterrar suas vítimas: “Os remanescentes ósseos constituíram mais uma inegável pr…
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 24/08/2025
Recebi salário em três moedas diferentes.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I just finished Lewis Mumford’s magisterial exploration of city life. Published in 1962, it has some of the sharpest takedowns of car-centric society I’ve ever read. Mumford: “We have sold our urban birthright for a sorry mess of motor cars. As poor a bargain as Esau’s pottage.” Choice bits 🧵
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇
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Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New article co-written by ICEHO President Claudia Leal! #EnvHist #EnvGeo #EnvHum
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 06/06/2025
Here, we argue the idea of “fortress conservation,” used to criticize the exclusion of people from national parks from the US to Tanzania cannot be easily applied to Latin America, where people were at times ignored, tolerated and even invited to parks. #envhist #envhum #skystorians #ecocrit
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 05/06/2025
New article written with Emily Wakild and Claudia Leal: "Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America” Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, you can access it on the link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ASVKY...
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Porous Conservation: The Complex History of Residents in National Parks in Latin America
This article analyzes the changing relations between national parks and people in Latin America between the 1930s and the present. In this region, conservation policies initially showed flexibility...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19/05/2025
NEW: Researchers have created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
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Researchers remap the world's rivers to improve flood modelling |
A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Our spring issue, Border Politics, is out today! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/spring...
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Spring 2025 - Dissent Magazine
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Featuring @patrickiber.bsky.social @fredericofreitas.org @andrespertierra.bsky.social @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social @idreesahmad.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @avramalpert.bsky.social, with art by the brilliant @thetolerantweft.bsky.social
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 04/05/2025
Watching The Eternaut, based on the 1950s post-apocalyptic comics by Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld, later ‘disappeared’ during the 1970s military dictatorship. I love that they didn’t move the story to NY, London, or LA—kept it in Buenos Aires and in Spanish. youtu.be/h_KwvrGZVow?...
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Transformando Buenos Aires | El Eternauta | Netflix España
YouTube video by Netflix España
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Online today @thenation.com (and I think, on the cover of the physical magazine soon) - a story I began writing in 2023. O Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST): www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 29/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/m...
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Shadows in São Paulo (Published 2015)
Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins.
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Andre Pagliarini @apagliar.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Brazil's Supreme Court decides unanimously that Bolsonaro must stand trial, paving the way (a ways away yet) for his arrest. Becomes first Brazilian president charged with attempting a coup. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt, Brazil’s top court rules
Supreme court judges decide former president should face criminal prosecution alongside seven close allies
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 26/03/2025
Last semester, my colleague Ross Bassett offered this fantastic course on bicycles in urban areas. history.chass.ncsu.edu/2025/03/26/h... @ncstatehistory.bsky.social
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History Professor, Dr. Ross Bassett, Teaches New STS Course on Urban Bicycle Transportation.
Dr. Ross Bassett, History professor and avid cyclist, offers a new course on Bicycle and Urban Transportation.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 15/03/2025
www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...
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Guimarães Rosa: a saga de uma década para traduzir para o inglês o 'intraduzível' 'Grande Sertão: Veredas' - BBC News Brasil
Clássico da literatura brasileira escrito por Guimarães Rosa só teve uma outra edição em inglês, publicada em 1963 e considerada um fracasso.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 03/03/2025
I’m Still Here won Best International Picture. Very timely that Brazil’s first Oscar came with movie about resistance to dictatorship.
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danimadu @danimadu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
O querido @ffreff.bsky.social traçando um paralelo entre a história de sua própria família e Ainda Estou Aqui em um texto lindamente escrito que vai além da obra cinemateográfica para falar sobre memória, resistência, política e os desafios que ainda existem
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Jake Blanc @jacobblanc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In prep for the Oscars this weekend, everybody should read this excellent piece by my dear friend and colleague, @ffreff.bsky.social Frederico Freitas. It's about the film I'm Still Here, his family's search for answers, and Brazil's ongoing memory wars. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Remembering Is Not Enough - Dissent Magazine
I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 28/02/2025
Escrevi essa resenha em inglês do Ainda Estou Aqui, na qual falo também da busca da minha família sobre informações sobre meu tio, Carlos Alberto Soares de Freitas, desaparecido político. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Remembering Is Not Enough - Dissent Magazine
I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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Frederico Freitas @fredericofreitas.org · 28/02/2025
I wrote this review of I’m Still Here, the Brazilian film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. In it, I also discuss my own family’s search for information about my uncle, who disappeared during Brazil’s military dictatorship. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Remembering Is Not Enough - Dissent Magazine
I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@ffreff.bsky.social, whose uncle was disappeared by the Brazilian military dictatorship, writes about the gaps between life and cinema in Ainda Estou Aqui www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Remembering Is Not Enough - Dissent Magazine
I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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