fandomtrumpshate:

Hi all,

The new tumblr shakeup caught us on the cusp of
announcing our calendar for 2019 and some of the new procedures we are
implementing this coming year. Even though a bunch of stuff is still in
flux, we want to get this basic information out there as quickly as
possible, while most people are still on tumblr to see it.

****Please reblog far and wide.**** We don’t know when we’ll have another chance to reach a lot of people again quickly.

1) Who are you guys, again?

We
are a handful of fans who came together, in the wake of the 2016
election, to throw together an auction to support some of the
organizations that would fight against the Trump administration. By
another accounting, we are the hundreds of fans who have participated in
the last two auctions to raise over $50,000 for organizations like
Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, ProPublica and the Trevor Project. You can read more about us on the About Us page linked at the top of our blog.

We are still finalizing our list of supported organizations for the year, but we will post that list shortly.

2) Where will the auction be hosted? How can I find you?

Like everyone else, we’re not totally sure where we are going to land. We have
our own freestanding site in production, but it won’t be ready for this
coming year (in part because we hadn’t thought we would need it yet!)

Our plan for now is to host this year’s auction at dreamwidth.
You can find us at dreamwidth under the name fandomtrumpshate.

That
being said, we are still taking suggestions: if you know of a platform
that is particularly well-suited to running an auction, please leave a
comment on this post.

Even if we end up running the auction from a different site, we will
make sure that you can always use the DW page to find us quickly and
easily.

We have also started a twitter account for auction announcements. Our handle there is FansTrumpHate.

3) When is the 2019 auction taking place?

We will post further information about auction logistics in a couple of days, but here is the basic calendar.

Sunday, January 6th:
creator signups open. As in years past, we are inviting people to
contribute one (or more!) of five kinds of fanwork: fic, art, vids,
podfics, or fan labor.

Friday, February 1st: creator signups close.

Monday, February 18th: Browsing
week begins. This is a new addition to our calendar! We’ve learned that many participants from the past two years, creators and bidders both, feel that a week is too long for
an auction. So instead, we’re giving potential bidders a full week to
look over all the offerings and decide what interests them, and then
shortening the bidding period itself.

Tuesday, February 25th, 8pm EST: Bidding opens

Friday, March 1st, 8pm EST: Bidding closes

Friday, March 8th, 8pm EST: proof of donation due from winning bidders

4) Why are we still doing this FTH thing? Blue wave, amirite?
It’s
true that American voters turned out in record numbers this November to
vote for democrats (or against republicans.) But the 45
administration’s attacks against immigrants, refugees, women, people of
color, non-Christians, members of the press, and the operations of
democracy itself are only getting fiercer – and the organizations that
are fighting back need our support as badly as ever. Since our last
auction at the beginning of 2018 (and we wish we could link you to
sources here, but all of these stories are easily googled):

* ICE
has created inhumane detention camps for asylum speakers, separated
infants and toddlers from their parents, seized and imprisoned American
citizens of color on the suspicion of being undocumented, and beaten to
death a trans woman in their custody. And if that weren’t enough, US
troops at the border have committed war crimes by firing tear gas
across an international border in order to deter a caravan of
asylum-seekers, including young children. 

FTH stands
with refugees, asylum-speakers, and undocumented immigrants, supporting
organizations like RAICES and the Young Center.

*
Hate crimes of many kinds have risen across the country, including the
Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and individual attacks against Muslims,
Sikhs, and LGBTQ+ people.

FTH continues to stand in
solidarity with the vulnerable people threatened by the Trump
administration, and to provide support to the organizations that offer
support and fight for their rights.

* Democrats’ electoral victories fell far short of the actual level of support they received from the electorate. Significant gerrymandering meant
that, in many states, Republicans maintained control of state and
federal offices in spite of being significantly outvoted across the
state as a whole. Furthermore, active voter suppression campaigns in
Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida (among others) prevented hundreds
of thousands of poor and minority voters from making their voices heard.
In states where the Republican party was unable to retain legislative or gubernatorial control, outgoing
lawmakers are passing laws and signing executive orders to strip power
away from their successors, and hastily approving vast numbers of
judicial appointments to lock in conservative judges.

This
year, FTH joins the fight for every voice by supporting organizations
that fight voter suppression and gerrymandering and seek to reinstate
the Voting Rights Act.

So yes, we’re still
doing this. We hope you’ll keep doing it, too. This is a long fight,
and it’s far from over. it’s going to take all of us.