i really want macdennis to become canon in the last season because objectively it would be REALLY funny if the queerbait wasn’t queerbait and they actually stuck the landing it’d be like ‘THIS is the gay rep we need in media!’ and its two fucking psychopaths on the weirdest show imaginable and everyone would have to agree because yeah no you’re right
don't want to be too flippant in handling the topic so to be clear: i don't think yuna is like the principal agent of the pressure to assimilate shane evidently feels. they live in a country that racialises asian people and are equally subjected to these conditions and equally encouraged to develop strategies for survival. the part of this pressure that yuna personally puts on shane can very easily be read and should imo be read as partly due to a genuine pragmatic desire to spare him pain - regardless of the effectiveness of this choice. but i also see in her actions a concurrent and, to me, non-contradictory impulse to use him as a conduit to achieve her own dreams of acceptance. the request to pursue an impeccable life aimed at achieving a status of belonging so unquestionable it grants him the social standing to extend it to her too. the interdependence of their future prospects as ground for the proprietary, boundless involvement in every facet of his life.
(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
🩵Immigrant support
Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.
Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
🩵Food support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
🩵Mutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
🩵More links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
🩵Donate blood
Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
🩵Donate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
🩵Mutual aid
Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.
Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.
Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."
Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.
🩵Activism
Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.
Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON
Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.
At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).
When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.
If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!
Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.
If you have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
It's interesting to find out as an adult that a lot of things you were taught to regard as "pretentious incomprehensible nonsense that fancy pretentious intellectuals pretend to understand in order to impress other fancy pretentious intellectuals who also won't admit that they don't get it either" are actually perfectly comprehensible. It's just that the people who raised you were either too stupid to get it, or too stubborn to even try. Yes I do actually understand how the cinematic visual symbolism of something that would make no sense in real life represents the characters' emotions in this scene.
I understand everything except wine. I just don't have a strong enough sense of scent or taste to tell the difference beyond what colour it is.
People talk like Dennis is obsessed with Dee and clingy while she just finds him annoying, but that misses how intensely mutual their fixation is. Dee is just as emotionally entangled with him; she just hides it better. She treats him like a parent figure the same way he acts like she's his mom: she brings men around specifically to get a reaction, she wants his approval or disapproval, and she lets him micromanage her body and appearance. All of that is about securing his attention. The way he gets jealous when she puts her attention elsewhere is what she does as well she just hides it better. She is every bit as dependent on him as he is on her; the difference is that her obsession is coded as “annoyance” and “bickering,” while his reads as overtly possessive. There is no one more important to her than her brother.
the problem with the gay hockey show is that the acting is great, the lighting is great, the music and costuming are great, the care taken is incredible, but you can't recommend it to normal people without sounding like a pervert
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