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Be aware that this one includes some weighty topics, so please be mindful if you have little ears present. I've been scared to speak up, even when I knew staying quiet wasn't the person I wanted to be. This is about privilege, powerlessness, and figuring out what it means to do something—even when that something feels small. Click here if you'd prefer to read this content. Related Links * Anything Mentionable is Manageable — Melinda Wenner Moyer * How to Raise Open Minded Kids in a Polarized World — Melinda Wenner Moyer and Emily Edlynn * Mattering And Why It Matters — Dr. Aliza Pressman and Jennifer Wallace * How to Talk to Kids About All the Terrible Things — Melinda Wenner Moyer and Elise Hu * For Love and Loss — Kathryn Barbash, PsyD * 10 Practical Tips for Parenting During Political Turmoil and Hard Times — Dr. Aliza Pressman * How to Talk to Kids About ICE and Keep Them Safe — Melinda Wenner Moyer Places You Can Donate (And Don’t Forget to Call Your Reps) Nationwide: * Your local community food bank. * Your local Mutual Aid. * Immigrant Defense ProjectIDP fights to end the current era of unprecedented mass criminalization, detention, and deportation through a multipronged strategy including advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communications. In Minnesota: * Minnesota Freedom FundMinnesota Freedom Fund works to end wealth-based detention and power build with community to dismantle the systems that turn poverty into punishment while expanding access to freedom, safety, and dignity for all Minnesotans. * Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine Food drives, fundraisers, trainings, restaurant specials, and other resources to support immigrant communities during ICE’s massive Operation Metro Surge. * Immigrant Law Center of MinnesotaILCM is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. * Women’s Foundation of MinnesotaIRRF is a coalition of philanthropic leaders rooted in communities most impacted by immigration-related harm. IRRF ensures that resources move quickly, responsibly, and with community accountability to trusted organizations responding to immigration-related emergencies across Minnesota. * Midwest Immigrant Bond FundThe Midwest Immigration Bond Fund pays out bonds for residents of, and people detained in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and fights for the abolition of immigration detention. * Community Aid Network MNCommunity Aid Network (CANMN) is a grassroots volunteer-led organization located in the Bancroft neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. We work to build solidarity with our neighbors, organize volunteers and redistribute resources to ensure everyone has the means for dignified survival. * Central Area Neighborhood Development The Central Neighborhood Care Team (Central Care Team), is one of six strategically organized groups within a larger group of Central Neighborhood residents organizing with a twofold mission: relationship building and resistance. This GoFundMe raises funds for critical rent assistance as families stay home. * Hennepin Healthcare Foundation - Pediatric Mobile HealthcareHennepin Healthcare, the non-profit safety net health care organization, is expanding and retrofitting its Pediatric Mobile Healthcare units to make more home visits and to add maternal health care, specifically for high-risk pregnancies, as many people are not making it to appointments at this time. If you'd like to receive these essays in both written and audio form, subscribe to Eliciting Esperance here. And if this episode resonated with you, please consider sharing it with a friend or rating the podcast. Both help more people find this work, and I'm grateful. Esperance (es-per-uhns): the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. Thank you to Joris Vermeer for the use of their human-created music for this podcast Get full access to Eliciting Esperance at elicitingesperance.substack.com/subscribe