https://devirbordado.space/en-us/An independent, author-led laboratory for research, creation and documentation on embroidery, memory and transformation.Hugoen-USSun, 08 Nov 2026 20:03:00 -0300https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/khnum-in-esna/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 20:03:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/khnum-in-esna/If you thought I would not return to talking about Egypt in this space, you were mistaken. As I said a few texts ago, astrologically I have Pallas retrograde—that is, anchoring myself in the justification under astrological influence, I have…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/iara-2/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:56:08 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/iara-2/I was born on a Wednesday. A fine drizzle was falling—one of those that covers the city with an misunderstood melancholy, and the color of the building facades and the paint of the houses become more evident because of the…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/samhain-the-veil-that-opens-and-the-memory-that-remains/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:55:35 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/samhain-the-veil-that-opens-and-the-memory-that-remains/Samhain is generally celebrated on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere and on April 30 in the Southern Hemisphere. It marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, when nature enters into rest and the days become…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/beltane-the-fire-of-life-and-the-dance-of-fertility/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:54:48 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/beltane-the-fire-of-life-and-the-dance-of-fertility/Beltane is generally celebrated on May 1 in the Northern Hemisphere and on November 1 in the Southern Hemisphere. It lies between spring and summer, marking the peak of nature’s blooming and the arrival of the hottest season of the…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ancestry-of-nana/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ancestry-of-nana/There is an idea that runs through many traditions of African origin: nothing begins from nothing. Everything comes from somewhere. Everything is continuity. That is what we call ancestry. Not only the memory of those who came before, but the…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/its-scorpio-season/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:32:12 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/its-scorpio-season/At least on the astrological calendar. The period of the sign of Scorpio runs from October 23 to November 21. The sign of Scorpio belongs to the Water element, and those born under its rule possess great intensity, intuition, loyalty,…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/recipe-bolinho-de-chuva-rain-cake/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/recipe-bolinho-de-chuva-rain-cake/In the previous texts, I told the story of the bolinho de chuva. How it was born in colonial kitchens, how it crossed the Atlantic and met the beignets of New Orleans and the calas that bought freedom. Now I…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/kitchens-of-the-big-houses/Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/kitchens-of-the-big-houses/Let’s talk a little about history and food. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, wheat flour was an expensive ingredient in Brazil. Imported from Portugal, it was known as “flour of the kingdom” and was far from being part of…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/the-meeting-of-the-forests/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/the-meeting-of-the-forests/There is a moment in Brazilian religious history that tends to receive less attention than it deserves. A moment when different traditions, coming from distinct continents, found ways to dialogue without completely losing their identities. This encounter happened amid the…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ancestry/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ancestry/Whenever I write about Indigenous peoples, African cosmologies, or Celtic traditions, I imagine someone might think this is a blog about religion. Actually, it isn’t. Or rather: religion appears, but it is not the center of the conversation. What interests…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/sugar-exports/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:01:05 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/sugar-exports/Although it may not seem so, there are central themes that present themselves each month in the making of this blog’s posts. Elections aside, this month the theme is ancestry. I thought the best way to begin this theme would…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/publications/entre-o-fato-e-a-versao/Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0300Publicationshttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/publications/entre-o-fato-e-a-versao/This article critically analyzes the media coverage of the 1989 Brazilian presidential elections, focusing on televised debates and a sample of newspapers from that period. The main objective is to understand how the press and television acted not merely as…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/public-policies/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/public-policies/Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives on time, the vaccine that reaches the health center, the school that opens its doors,…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/editing-of-reality/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:01:05 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/editing-of-reality/We are in 2026, another election year in Brazil. And, as happens with every election, we have already begun to see circulating on social networks and in family groups those messages that mix truth, half-truth, and invention. Edited videos, cut…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/impermanence-in-silence/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:01:05 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/impermanence-in-silence/Silence is not static, it demands impermanence. And there is a kind of scream that is not born from fear. It is born when something inside us finally refuses to remain silent. For that is precisely what Anna Figueiredo’s article…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/systems-and-libraries/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/systems-and-libraries/Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to find a specific item in a library that holds over 184 million items? I’m not talking about finding a book on a shelf. I’m talking about finding…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ostara-and-spring/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/ostara-and-spring/Spring, like autumn, is marked by an equinox. It is an astronomical phenomenon in which the Sun shines directly on the Equator, causing both hemispheres of the Earth to receive practically the same amount of light. The result is days…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/jem77fp-2-2/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/jem77fp-2-2/This text overflows with Meraki. I have many capitalist consumer desires. Some can be classified as futile and unnecessary, and I agree. Considering the direction of our society and so many much more urgent needs, there is not exactly a…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/publications/institutional-architecture/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0300Publicationshttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/publications/institutional-architecture/Founding document of the authorial research laboratory Devir Bordado. Devir Bordado is not born to reach a definitive form. As a research laboratory, it remains open to revising its own assumptions, to incorporating new interlocutors and to the emergence of…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/to-dispose/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/to-dispose/“Essa canção é por você – (This song is for you) Que já cansou de escutar – (Who is tired of listening) Esteve vivo sem viver – (You were alive without living) Mas não deixou de acreditar”– (But you never…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/an-embroidered-system/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/an-embroidered-system/Let’s do a small exercise. Imagine cross-stitch as an analog computational system, not because embroidery is literally a computer, but because some of its characteristics allow us to build a curiously precise analogy between a manual practice and certain principles…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/fairfarren/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/fairfarren/“Fairfarren.” Some words seem to be born already expressing how much we miss someone. The expression became known in the film Alice in Wonderland (2010), directed by Tim Burton. It does not appear in Lewis Carroll’s original books, but the…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/music/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:01:05 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/music/I am driven by music. That is a fact. I was analyzing my Spotify metrics and noticed that, for several consecutive months, my monthly average has been around 11,700 minutes of listening to music. That represents approximately 195 hours per…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/hermes-the-archetype-of-the-messenger/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/hermes-the-archetype-of-the-messenger/Throughout history, different peoples have imagined a figure capable of doing what few can: crossing boundaries. Hermes, Mercury, Thoth, Turms, Nabu, Exu, different names and different cosmologies, yet all attribute great importance to characters who mediate paths, transport messages, translate…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/embryodead-and-embroidery/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:29:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/embryodead-and-embroidery/Sometimes, a text is born from a mistake. It’s been a while now, I was browsing through Spotify when I came across a song called Embryodead. But my eyes read something else: for a few seconds, I saw Embroidery. I…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/pallas-memory-and-thought/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/pallas-memory-and-thought/Some time ago, I began studying astrology as a tool for self-knowledge. I like astrology because it offers images for thinking about ourselves, much like myths, tarot, or literature do. In addition to looking at a natal chart and studying…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/where-is-this-blog-heading/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:51:00 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/where-is-this-blog-heading/When this space was born, I simply called it a blog. Today I am no longer so sure that this word is enough. There is still a blog, of course! I keep writing texts, publishing research, sharing discoveries, and stitching…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/16-and-no-mans-sky/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:51:44 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/16-and-no-mans-sky/During my undergraduate studies, I had the honor of working alongside Professor Marco Antônio de Almeida, a researcher in the fields of mediation and cultural action. In fact, I served with him as a member of the University’s Extension and…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/lammas-the-harvest-that-feeds-the-soul/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:36:51 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/lammas-the-harvest-that-feeds-the-soul/In the Southern Hemisphere, the beginning of February marks the celebration of Lammas, also known by the Celtic name Lughnasadh (pronounced loo-na-sah). It is the festival of the first harvest, one of the great sabbats of Celtic tradition. The name…https://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/imbolc-the-flame-of-brigid/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:43:44 -0300Bloghttps://devirbordado.space/en-us/blog/imbolc-the-flame-of-brigid/In the Southern Hemisphere, August 1 marks the celebration of Imbolc, one of the minor sabbats of Celtic tradition. Located between winter and spring, this festival announces that the earth, still silent, is slowly beginning to awaken. Its name derives…