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Anna Pöysä

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

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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...

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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...

23 days ago
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Who needs Lisbon when there’s Linha de Sintra

‘There’s nothing for us in Lisbon’, said my hairdresser, who opened her business a bit outside Lisbon centre some years ago after studying and living abroad.

She said this after asking me if I often visit the centre. I realised that since...

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Finland and colonialism

I recently spent some time in Finland, where I'm from, and wanted to write about my home country from the same perspective I often use when writing about Lisbon and Portugal: exploring colonialism.

While Portugal is an example of the best-...

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Lisbon resists, but it's not easy

I had not been to Feira da Ladra, the big outdoor flea market in Lisbon, for quite a while. I thought that by now there would be mainly neat stalls selling things that tourists might buy: colourful ceramics, cheap jewellery, summer dresses...

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

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