Imigração Stories

Nova Tla Hagar, Iaym al-Gom'a, Rytmatann, 9º, AM 1500 (ou, como chamávamos: Rio de Janeiro, Sexta-feira, Julho, 30, 2077 d.C.) Hoje, neste diário da resistência, é com satisfação que registro a vitória de Luizinho Jaburu no bem-sucedido ataque ao depósito de comida. Há 9 dias não podemos comer ou beber, inclusive água, durante o dia devido a imposição Oslábica. A nossa já escassa ração só estava sendo entregue ao pôr do sol. Para comemorarmos, abrimos também a penúltima cerveja contrabandeada do último ano. Embora quente, o sabor do álcool me enche de alegria ao escrever essas palavras. Luizinho Jaburu, líder da resistência da Favela do Bacon, zona Leste do nosso bucólico Rio de Janeiro, e sua gangue, depois da dizimação dos militares na tomada do poder, eram uns dos poucos ainda armados. Por meio da sua obstinação, a Favela do Bacon ainda é considerada um refúgio aos que buscam relembrar os velhos tempos. SL.R.C. Davi

"Two men. Two tragedies. One heart that must beat for both." In 1946, Franz Reines fled the ruins of Germany, carrying a toxic legacy of hatred and a secret that could destroy his future in Brazil. Decades later, his heart is failing-hardened by the very prejudice he was taught to cherish. Dr. Kanelo Biko is a man of healing who knows the cost of hate all too well. Having escaped the horrors of Apartheid in South Africa, he has dedicated his life to saving others. Now, he must perform the most difficult surgery of his career: transplanting a heart of peace into a man who represents everything he once fled. Set against the lush landscapes of Santa Catarina, The Heart That Unites Worlds is a powerful tale of redemption, irony, and the biological truth that beneath our skin, we are all the same.

On the threshold between dystopian reality and speculative nightmare, Makala is a reading experience that combines the visceral tension of Orange Is the New Black, the biotechnological horror of Ex Machina, and the afrofuturist social critique of N.K. Jemisin. Jemisin. Luiza Moradi, a Brazilian doctor of Iranian descent, has her bright future in emerging disease research interrupted during a layover at Los Angeles airport. For carrying a "suspicious" name, she is torn from the real world and thrown into an immigrant detention center, where humans are reduced to numbers and treated as tools. With Luiza is also João Pedro Makala, a programr who refused to accept the American dream, but for that reason, was also devoured by the system. While they struggle to survive the violence and dehumanization, the duo discovers that the camp is not just a holding place for unwanted immigrants, but the secret laboratory of a biotech megacorporation. Between the desperate need to escape and the struggle to maintain sanity, Luiza and Makala find themselves at the center of a conspiracy that transcends the physical boundary of the camp. With the help of other prisoners, including the Angolan Kafuxi, who carries the ancestral strength of Exu, they must confront not only the horror of what they are becoming but also the calculating coldness of a system that considers them disposable. MAKALA is a dive into biotechnological horror, into structural racism that wears a white coat, and into afrofuturism that finds strength even in the dark cell. And for those who know that sometimes the name that must not be spoken is the only one that keeps us alive.