Good morning!
This will be the last weekly email for the year; next week (around about the 15th) will be the last fortnightly gender in Asia and the Pacific wrap-up.
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-Kate
Read
This mochi shop in Kyoto is 1,020 years old (!!), and is just one of 33,000 Japanese shops that have been running continuously for over one century. What makes Japanese shops so resilient?
These Alabama quilts from Gee’s Bend are phenomenal, and it seems that they’re finally getting the artistic recognition they deserve.
Do you need more books to read? I definitely don’t, and yet I gobbled up this massive list of recommendations from writers via The Age/Sydney Morning Herald.
AWAVA released a booklet on good practice principles for addressing cases of sexual and gender-based violence. Worth a read.
Watch and listen
Britanny Barnet is a lawyer in the US who advocates on behalf of people sentenced to long jail terms due to drug charges. NPR’s Fresh Air spoke to her about why and how she does that work, and how it feels when nine of your clients have been granted clemency by the president.
Two webinars we organised via the Southeast Asia Feminist Action Movement (SEAFAM) this past week: combating GBV in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and reflections on grassroots feminist work during the pandemic in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Eat
I’ve been raiding the neighbourhood plum trees this week and tried making plum jam for the first time. It was a massive success - no pans burnt, and fantastic deep pinky-purple sweet-sour plum jam!