Good morning! I’ve had a real emotional rollercoaster of a week. The world feels very heavy right now.
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Australians must do better to fight racial injustice and police brutality against Indigenous people. As Amy McQuire writes in The Saturday Paper, there cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators.
Many media outlets were taken in by the ideal of objective ‘both sides’ reporting and commentary in recent years. Things might finally be changing.
Julia Winterflood takes a look at Bali’s post-COVID-19 tourism landscape, and actually spoke to some Balinese to see what they would like to see happen on their island. I say ‘actually’ because so many foreign stories on this topic fail to speak to locals, which is obviously a major oversight.
Erin Cook on the Philippines’ new anti-terror bill, which frankly sounds very worrying for freedom of expression and association.
Courtney Martin speaks to Mia Birdsong about how we show up for our communities.
On China’s army of Twitter bots and reshaping the world’s opinion of China’s handling of coronavirus.
I read Rebecca Solnit’s short book on activism and social change, Hope in the Dark, and found it very reassuring.
Watch/listen
The View From Somewhere, a podcast I just discovered, looks at extractive/exploitative journalism in its latest episode and highlights a couple of journalists who are trying to stop reporting on oppressed/marginalised peoples and start reporting for them instead.
WNYC Studios’s On the Media podcast episode ‘No Justice, No Peace’. It features The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah talking about how the protest for racial justice in the US would be covered if they occurred in another country.
Call Your Girlfriend talks to educator and organiser Mariame Kaba about police abolition.
Cook
As of 14 June, I’ll have been blacklisted from Indonesia for one year now. It makes my heart hurt so I have been trying to make myself feel a bit better by cooking traditional Indonesian cakes, like dadar gulung, which are delicious green pancakes wrapped around a coconut and palm sugar filling.
I tried to make a Sri Lankan jackfruit curry but found it a bit underwhelming. Not sure what I did wrong but it was just a bit flat? Anyway, the beetroot stirfry I cooked to serve alongside it was delicious, so not all was lost.
Ottolenghi has a wonderful recipe for braised chickpeas with carrots, dates, and feta. It goes excellently with some fresh flatbread.