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Leticia Bufoni is one of the greatest skaters ever. Now she’s tearing up asphalt.

Vamos, Leticia! — The Brazilian trailblazer helped rewrite the rulebook for women in skateboarding – and now she’s setting the pace behind the wheel for Porsche. For Huck’s 20th Anniversary Issue, she reflects on shredding stereotypes, building a career in male-dominated spaces, empowering the next generation, and the lessons that defined her journey.

  • Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue
  • Tracy Kawalik
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Why is the Amazon’s ‘great roar’ river wave shrinking?

Pororoca — Set in northern Brazil’s edge, a miles long tidal bore has become a destination for waveriders attempting its endless surf. But its future is uncertain, as landscape and weather changes have seen its power mellow in recent years.

  • Sport
  • Gaia Neiman
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For trans surfer Alice Barbosa, rediscovering her stoke is an act of resistance

Alice — Gabriel Novis’s new film focuses on one of his old family friends, who had drifted away from the sea after facing prejudice in their local scene in Maceió, Brazil. We caught up with the filmmaker ahead of its UK premiere at the London Surf / Film Festival this weekend.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Capturing the vibrant energy of passinho dancers in Rio’s favelas

Funk is life — The fast-paced dance first emerged in the early 2000s at illegal baile funk parties, but has grown into an international phenomenon in recent years with the help of social media. Photographer Jonangelo Molinari has spent years documenting its moves, characters and culture.

  • Huck 82: The Music Issue
  • Josh Jones
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Sandro Dias breaks a skateboarding record, dropping in from a skyscraper

The Skate Ramp Building — The 22-storey CAFF building, shaped perfectly like a skate ramp, is located in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Huck’s founder and publisher Vince Medeiros explains what Mineirinho’s feat means to locals.

  • Skate
  • Vince Medeiros
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The forgotten women’s football film banned in Brazil

Onda Nova — With cross-dressing footballers, lesbian sex and the dawn of women’s football, the cult movie was first released in 1983, before being censored by the country’s military dictatorship. Now restored and re-released, it’s being shown in London at this year’s BFI Flare film festival.

  • Sport
  • Jake Hall

Two decades of City of God: Fernando Meirelles in conversation

We talk to the Brazilian director about the film’s legacy, Brazilian cinema, and how non-Western countries are producing the most exciting movies.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk

“A green favela”: The reality of life in the Brazilian Amazon

Photographer Tommaso Protti’s new monograph is a haunting vision of humanity’s devastating impact on the world’s largest forest.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Favela ballet: inside a dance school unlike any other

En pointe — In one of Rio’s toughest neighbourhoods, a makeshift academy is offering young women the opportunity to escape the struggles of life – even if just for a day.

  • Magazine
  • Fabian Federl

Huck 73: The Sanctuary Issue

Out now! — We were ready to release our new issue back in March. Then the world fell off a cliff. Five months later, we have a magazine that exists freely between Then and Now: a collection of stories about hope and resilience, at a time when we need them more than ever.

  • Culture
  • Huck

Tribes of the Amazon: Inside the struggle of the Yanomami

A fight for survival — In 1971, photographer Claudia Andujar began photographing the Yanomami – an Amer-Indian tribe living on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. In the years that followed, their existence came under serious threat.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

For indigenous people, COVID-19 is only the latest battle

A view from Brazil — Brazil’s former vice-presidential candidate Sonia Guajajara calls for urgent environmental action amid the existential threat posed by the coronavirus.

  • Opinion
  • Sonia Guajajara

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