Pandemic Pause

The Doll Stops Here

“Pandemic Pause” (18 August 2020) — digital collage by AleXander Hirka / Used with permission

It looks like an ordinary doll, right? Well, that’s because it is. An ordinary doll, I mean. It was made in some sweatshop in Indonesia by a little girl who didn’t know what dolls were about but did know the $4 a day she earned meant dinner for everyone every night.

Then it got shipped to a port city along with all the other freight destined to be sent to Eugene, Oregon in…