Le Guimarães
Le Guimarães is a Brazilian artist, researcher and educator. Graduating in Communication and Media, and Design with a master’s in Fine Arts, she has spent the last decade living in Switzerland, Netherlands and in the UK, during a doctorate in typography, and is currently back in Brazil.
Contributions
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FeaturesA Born Activist
Environmental activist Samela Sateré Mawé is showing how Indigenous youth in Brazil are taking control of their own narrative and using contemporary weapons in the fight to defend their territories.
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InterviewsEx-Pajé
Perpera Suruí is a former shaman of the Paiter Suruí people, based in the village of Lapetanha, Amazonia, Brazil. Contact was first made with the Paiter Suruí on 7 September 1969.
— Issue #12 -
FeaturesYa nomaimi! Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi!
The Yanomami say that Omama, the demiurge, created the tree of dreams so that humans could dream. When the flowers of this tree bloom, dreams are sent to the Yanomami.
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InterviewsWomen of the Earth
Fabrícia Sabanê is the coordinator of the Associação das Guerreiras Indígenas de Rondônia (AGIR), an organisation working alongside Indigenous women in the State of Rondônia, Brazil.
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FeaturesUÝRA
Uýra Sodoma is a manifestation of the biologist, ecologist, visual artist and art educator Emerson Pontes. Uýra tells stories to and for their community via the emotion of the imagination
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Features‘You don’t know the spirits of the forest’
Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and spokesperson and founder of the Hutukara Yanomami Association. His words rippled throughout the world with the book The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
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FeaturesIn Our Bones
Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people
— Issue #14
