MN AF is not a cute abbreviation. It's Minnesota As Fuck when you're feeling rowdy, and Minnesota Anti Fascist when you're feeling responsible. Most days it's both. That's the joke. That's the truth. That's the whole damn point.
This is for the people who keep snacks in their bag and bail money in their head. For the ones who watch the headlines spiral and still choose neighbors over narratives. For anyone sick of raids, sick of scapegoats, sick of watching ICE turn families into paperwork and panic. Say it plain: abolish ICE. Say it in the group chat. Say it at the rally. Say it while you drive someone to an appointment and pretend it's just errands.
Wear it when you need a signal flare without a long speech. Wear it to show up for immigrants, for queer kids, for trans friends, for anyone being targeted because some politician needed a villain. Wear it to a community meeting in Powderhorn, a late night benefit in Whittier, a coffee stop in Dinkytown, a walk through the North Loop when the air is sharp and you can feel the city thinking.
Minnesota pride isn't only lakes and postcards. It's mutual aid and stubbornness. It's holding the door and holding the line. It's a University of Minnesota lecture hall where someone refuses the sanitized version of history. It's St. Thomas and Macalester kids learning fast that solidarity is a verb. It's a St. Paul Midway bus stop, a Frogtown block, a kitchen table translating forms, a text that says I'm outside.
Sports people get it too, even if they pretend they don't. Vikings heartbreak builds endurance. Twins summers teach patience. Wild games teach you to keep yelling even when you're down. Timberwolves chaos teaches survival. The Lynx remind you what excellence looks like when it refuses to apologize.
The print looks worn in on purpose, like a flyer that's been ripped down and taped back up. Big stacked letters, distressed texture, shadowed like a brick wall at midnight. It reads fast. It reads mean. It reads like you.
Strange Gang made this for the ones who don't want neutral. For the ones who can love Minnesota and still demand better from it. For the people who believe safety is community, not uniforms. If that makes someone uncomfortable, good. Let it. Then go do something.
