#cultural-resistance

#cultural-resistance

For the past three decades, Rio de Janeiro has marked the national day of samba in December with a remarkable tradition, the samba train, a musical journey that revisits the genre's early struggles and salutes the musicians who shape it. Julia Carneiro takes the ride. It's 6 p.m. in Rio's Central Station. This platform is usually packed with people waiting for their trains to commute back home after work. But today, all the passengers are dancing to samba music, and every carriage has a different band playing.

The exhibition centres on the deep, irrevocable relationship between Palestinian people and their homeland and features the work of eight image makers: Adam Rouhana, Maen Hammad, Jenna Masoud, Samar Hazboun, Kholood Eid, Sakir Khader, Zach Hussein and Dean Majd. The exhibition has been curated by the British-Iraqi writer and editor Dalia Al-Dujaili, who was invited by Gola Gallery to work on the show as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Colorful ribbons in the red and green colors of the Mexican flag weaved into twin braids have emerged as a new symbol of resistance among some Latinas. Dulce Flores and Angie Portillio said they felt under siege earlier this year as armed and masked federal agents fanned out across Los Angeles and other U.S. cities to conduct immigration raids. (Dulce Flores)

The Guelaguetza festival in Healdsburg showcased the vibrant cultures of the Mixteco and Triqui communities, featuring traditional dance performances from Oaxaca's regions, promoting cultural pride and resistance.

For me, costume has always been part of everything. Culturally, I grew up in Venezuela seeing costume not as something separate from daily life but as something deeply embedded in it, especially through the lens of carnival.

Fanon emphasizes that the identities of individuals shaped by colonialism require reconstruction through an internal process of liberation, not just external pressures.

This song interprets the story as a metaphor for resistance and a battle cry against erasure. Much of Philippine history consists of colonization and imperialism.