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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

enby-axels

it's interesting how the drama implies that sometime over the years, emma lost contact with her high school friends and was never able to make new ones on her own. and yet being friendless again didnt make her regress or default to her previous state. i think she really did change as a person and took ownership over her growth and beliefs. she never wanted to go back to that bad dream

and imo that really hammers in the theme that emma is just a person, like anyone else. like any other person, she is capable of change, both negative and positive. she can be radicalized and deradicalized. emma herself points this out as a teen, mass shooters can look like anybody! theyre not even all men. and charlie points echoes her point in the present day when he says there could be thousands of people walking the streets who were radicalized like emma and just like her they ultimately didnt go through with it. and when arguing with his friends about it, he accidentally stumbled upon the really great point that this is a very american problem produced by american gun culture. the individual of course bears responsibility for their actions and their growth, but if we want to understand and solve this problem on a broader scale, we have to understand it is bigger than any one person. it cant be boiled down to a few bad actors and divorced from the material conditions from which gun violence emerges

in contrast, multiple other characters in the drama independently use a very interesting choice of words to describe emma: "psychopath." they all, in different settings and conversations, use a term which carries an incredible amount of bagge in pop psychology and bourgeois psychiatry. their language indicates they see emma as an aberration, fundamentally broken and incapable of change. because that's the safe way of looking at it. it's easy to exceptionalize mass shootings and hard to look at the rot at the heart of the america, the massive amounts of violence we inflict which we take for granted as part of the status quo. because that's their normal and emma, to these characters, is intrinsically abnormal and therefore irredeemable

and look, i dont have an easy answer for whether or not we should assume the best of somebody who once planned a mass shooting. that's a hard pill for anyone to swallow. but the drama believes it's clearly possible for someone like that to truly change, and i want to believe that too

clemperium

The thing about the Drama that I have a hard time coming to terms with is the reason why Emma didn't go and commit the shooting. Everyone goes with the most uncharitable interpretation of those events; as if she didn't do it because she would no longer be "the first" one to do it in her town.

The movie shows how the shooting impacted the students at Emma's school, and Emma had to sit and take in all the reactions of those around her. The pain it caused others, how shameful it is to do such a thing, the weight of real life taken. Her not going through with it read to me less as a disappointment, and more as a wake-up call.

Before the shooting happened, her view of such events was glamorized play pretend. She was trying to make a "cool" sounding manifesto putting on silly makeup and clothes. After it happened, she was face-to-face with the real consequences that would have on the people around her, and she chose not to go through with her plan.

Charlie's interpretation of this event was the MOST uncharitable possible interpretation of how things went down and idk why his viewpoint is the one taken in this scenario.

crap-copper

The first line in her video says it all "by the time you've seen this, I'm already dead" she never planned on facing the consequences, but because of that other shooting, she did, she saw the pain it caused, the pain she would've caused and had to keep living, that changes a person

medusas-daughter

Slight spoilers but Emma having spent her entire childhood moving around never staying long enough to make friends or get closure from the bullying and her adult coping mechanism being "let's start over" was chef's kiss

diamondeyes-deluxe

My favorite thing about The Drama is Rachel's character because she reminds me of the kind of young person online who thinks the mere act of performing disgust or outrage at the morally wrong actions of someone else is somehow politically productive at all, or that it makes them a "good person."

Whenever I see someone disregard or disparage ideas of rehabilitation for people who have done (or in this movie's case, almost did) unforgivable things, I want to grab them and ask "what should be done, then?" Because, people like that do exist, in spades, and short of executing or imprisoning or Black Mirror White Bearing every person who's done or thought of doing something immoral, rehabilitation is probably the best bet for minimizing harm, right? (And if your answer to immorality IS execution or isolation... i do not think youre really the more moral one here...) But even taking out any potential empathy for the humans who do or think of doing immoral acts, sometimes, giving them the tools to lead a happy and fulfilling life are the exact thing that leads them AWAY from the potential acts of like, shooting up a school, regardless of how undeserving you think they are of that.

Its especially interesting because, in the movie, Emma had arguably done way more activism against gun violence than Rachel ever did, despite her cousin, but this means nothing. Emma's primary motivation for her planned shooting was bullying and the isolation she felt (and TCC tumblr), but it was when she found friends and real community and something else to invest her energy into, she was able to pull herself out of those dark thoughts and, like, rejoin society. And what does Rachel do when she finds out? Spreads rumors, and tries to isolate her. And, I say this not to victim blame, but to acknowledge that no one makes those big decisions in a vacuum and that understanding these things better is a NECESSITY for preventing them, which should be the fucking goal; that is exactly the kind of behavior that made her want to do that when she was 15.