How are we all today? I hope you are doing as well as possible and have some things that are providing you with peace and perhaps even some joy.
As always, if you’re enjoying Solidaritas, paid subscriptions are available for US$5/month or much much cheaper at US$40/year. Have a lovely weekend!
-Kate
Read
Rebranding tea for satanists and metalheads in the US. The photos are something special.
Hackers, doxers and influencers: since 2017, the Indonesian government has spent Rp 90.45 billion (A$8.6 million) on social media influencers.
Working on a deep sea fishing vessel was already one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Then the pandemic happened.
A promising new scheme in India is trying to encourage police officers to find more missing children.
Miserable news: Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are alleging foreign aid workers sexually abused them during the Ebola crisis.
The child labour behind your made-in-India jeans.
How QAnon theories spread in one writer’s small American hometown.
Watch and listen
I binged the four-episode mini-series Hillary over the weekend. The way the director has combined her own interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton with historical footage makes for compelling watching. It’s available to watch on SBS on Demand in Australia and Hulu elsewhere.
Eat
A vegetarian take on Chinese-style steamed fish with ginger, spring onions, and soy sauce: Hetty McKinnon’s tofu and oyster mushrooms. I made this for lunch yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at how well the flavours and textures worked together.