The Belarus solidarity algorithm

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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A year into the protest movement in Belarus, what are things like on the ground? This week we talk to the poet Hanna Komar about her own experience in detention, and the extraordinary "algorithm" of solidarity among women in the movement. We're also talking about Russian gas, Norwegian oil, and the magnificence of Emma Raducanu. You can read Hanna's article, 'Sisterhood behind bars', here. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Lykke Li and Robyn on Song Exploder; The Book of Reykjavik. There are still a few tickets left for our first ever live show, in Amsterdam on September 24! Grab one here. This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	This podcast is a part of Sphira.
0:01.8	A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe.
0:05.7	Some more information.
0:06.8	Visit Svira-hub.com. So I'm back in the office fairly often at the moment.
0:35.7	And something that I've noticed is that even though things are tentatively feeling kind of
0:40.7	semi-normal again here in Paris, La Bees is still not back.
0:44.9	Do you know what I mean when I say the Bees?
0:47.1	No, I've no idea.
0:48.6	It's the French double-kiss thing.
0:51.4	Ah, yeah.
0:53.1	Which in non-COVID times, it was like a huge waste of everyone's time because
0:56.5	you'd have to turn up at a party and like kiss 15 people, one after the other, like
1:00.3	and I used to find it really annoying. But now I'm starting to worry that it's never coming
1:05.7	back and I feel kind of sad about it. Did you do that at work too? Sometimes. A colleague was saying there was this one guy
1:12.2	who literally used to just go around the office, piecing every single person, like a team of 12 people
1:17.0	every morning. But that doesn't feel like something that's really doable in a post-COVID world.
1:22.1	I'm not sure it will come back. I mean, in the Netherlands, you do three kisses, which also takes a long time, but you wouldn't do it at work.
1:28.4	And then in the Netherlands, if you do one kiss, then it means you know them really well.
1:32.7	It's really intimate.
1:33.4	So it's like a bit of a, sometimes it feels like a slur if like someone gives you three kisses.
1:38.5	You're like, oh, I thought we were really close.
1:39.9	Oh, well, never mind.
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