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The Other Lisbon

Anna Pöysä

Essays and interviews from a gentrified Lisbon haunted by its colonial past.

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I have never seen Lisbon like this

It’s 10.40 pm and I’m writing this while the spaghetti boils. I was woken up at 7.30 am to be told that there had been police violence against the housing protesters again. I had fallen asleep at 3 am while watching the live news from the h...

3 days ago
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After a sunny day, the darkest night

Lisbon, October 25

It was a warm, sunny autumn afternoon in Lisbon yesterday, and some 25,000 people joined the housing march from Marquês de Pombal to Rossio. There were lots of families and young people, and even a children’s block at th...

11 days ago
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Greetings from the Lisbon housing protest camp

As I get out of the train at Rossio, it’s business as usual. Tourists take photos of the famous railway station and tuk-tuks drive by. Closer to the square more tourists fill the outdoor seating area of a café to enjoy the sunny autumn morn...

16 days ago
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Can we stop romanticising Portugal?

My mother-in-law, who is Cape Verdean, taught me a lesson. We were leaving her place, and she was sending us home with food. As she was looking for a plastic bag, I said that I could just carry the container without a bag. She said that I c...

a month ago
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Remembering Bruno Candé, victim of racist murder in Lisbon

Note: this post contains descriptions of racist violence.

Last Saturday, the outdoors sports court in Chelas neighbourhood was busy when we got there: a food and drink stall was already set up and there were little queues, kids were playin...

a month ago
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    Finnish immigrant in Lisbon // Freelance journalist and translator // PhD in Postcolonial Studies (University of Coimbra)

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