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Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways To Give:

knitchick1979 linked to a fundraiser for huskyfriends, who is trying to raise funds to get their car and computer fixed. You can read more and find the paypal donation address here.

eruvadhril linked to a fundraiser for Oskar Lim, a trans man who is crowdfunding his chest surgery. You can read more about Oskar here, donate to his GoFundMe here, and give to the Isabelle Lake Memorial Fund mentioned in the article (dedicated to improving the lives of young trans* people in Western Australia) here.

slice254 linked to the Spiritual Pride Project, a group that works with LGBTQ teens and young adults in Austin, Texas and which is currently raising money to help fund their annual retreat. I'm not quite sure how to define them in terms of being a religious group, but I'm given to understand that they are non-coercive and primarily interested in connecting youth to spirituality that may otherwise have marginalized them. You can read more about their organization here and support their indiegogo here.

Housing:
rielrolling is looking for someone to sublet from her from July to December in Santa Barbara, CA, a private bedroom in a three-bedroom duplex. $725/month without utilities, two friendly roommates. They can be contacted via their askbox on Tumblr.

Pets!

thaddeousfavour linked to Sophie's Circle, a pet food pantry in Volusia County, Florida, which supports primarily elderly fixed-income pet owners who wouldn't otherwise be able to feed their pets. They currently have a food drive going but because the are super-local, it is of course easier to give at their web page.

nutmeg3 linked to Critter Camp, an animal rescue for exotics and small furries, located in Illinois. They're selling tickets for a fundraiser in early May, with the entertainment provided by a stand-up comedy group that performs in various places to benefit animal rescues. You can read more about the rescue here, donate here, and check out the fundraiser in Freeport, IL here.

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So, I watched Snowpiercer last night.

For those who haven't heard of it (most people, apparently) it's a film made by Joon-ho Bong, a Korean director, which has had extensive distribution outside the US, but was having issues getting in cinemas because the US distribution company wanted to make cuts that Joon-ho Bong insisted would ruin the film. It has some pretty big names, including Tilda Swinton and Chris Evans, so I've been eagerly awaiting the chance to see it despite it being a movie about basically everything I hate seeing movies about (post-apocalyptic dystopias, man's brutality to his fellow man, et cet). But it does have Chris Evans in it, and one of the best surrealist sushi meals I've ever seen.

Supposedly it's based on a comic book, but I downloaded the comic and despite it being in French I worked out enough from it to believe that probably the premise is the only thing that fully transferred over from graphic novel to film.

It's super-hard to discuss the film without spoiling it, so I strongly recommend seeing the film first -- but if you are easily disturbed by psychological fuckery in films, you actually may want to get the spoilers. I dunno -- I'm glad I didn't because I might not have watched if I had.

( Snowpiercer -- major spoilers. )