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Welcome to 2023. Fandom Trumps Hate auction turns seven (!!) this year. Like every new year, 2023 is bringing us a lot to be afraid of — but also a lot to be hopeful about, and a lot of good projects worth supporting and fighting for.

If you'd like a refresher on what FTH is or how it works, you can read about it here in our FAQ! You can now also read about this year's supported nonprofits here. Our calendar for the 2023 auction is below.

February 6th: creator signups open

February 19th: creator signups close

February 26th: browsing period begins

~~March 1st:~~ ~~bidding opens~~

March 5th: bidding closes

March 12th: proof of donations due

In many respects, the world has gotten better than it was when the original FTH crew teamed up to pull together a benefit auction in 2016, after the election; in other respects, it’s gotten harder and more dangerous.

But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from coming back year after year — and from watching all of you come back for another year of organizing and donating and creating and community-building — it’s that there is always reason to hope, and that it’s always possible to do something concrete and meaningful with that hope.

We hope you’ll join us again.

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In late 2016, the Fandom Trumps Hate fanworks auction was founded in response to the disastrous US presidential election, as an attempt to band together and put some good back into the world by raising money for nonprofit organizations working to protect the vulnerable and marginalized. Over the past five years, we’ve raised more than $135,000 together for a range of progressive organizations — and we aren’t quitting now.

We hope you'll come back to fight with us.

2022 AUCTION CALENDAR

Monday, January 31st – creator signups open

Sunday, February 13th – creator signups close

Sunday, February 20th – browsing period begins*

Wednesday, February 23rd, 8am EST – bidding opens

Sunday, February 27th, 8pm EST – bidding closes

Sunday, March 6th, 8pm EST – proof of donation due from bidders

* browsing period is a window of time when all auction offers are visible but bidding has not yet opened. It’s a great time for bidders to figure out which offers are appealing to them, and for creators to double-check their offerings posts for errors.

LIST OF SUPPORTED NONPROFITS

This year, we are raising money for roughly a dozen small, progressive nonprofits doing vital work on shoestring budgets: advocating for immigrant children, providing running water to Navajo communities, supporting incarcerated sex workers, and reviving local journalism, among others. Additionally, we are supporting the whole category of organizations known as abortion funds: grassroots community groups that help people make the best reproductive choices for themselves. We’ve identified a few specific abortion funds that are worthy recipients, but we have also linked the National Network of Abortion Funds’ directory to help you connect to your local abortion fund. See the full list of supported organizations here.

Creators may also add in one other nonprofit of their choice. You can read more about it here.

FAQ

All of your questions answered (we hope) in this freshly updated and expanded FAQ! If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, please send us an email at fandomtrumpshate at gmail dot com. But before you do that, you might find your question answered our our bidding policies page. or our page on the Regiment of Fan Laborers (ROFL).

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The new year got off to a good start in the US thanks to the Georgia senatorial runoff election ... and then things went to hell pretty damned fast. But Trump is on his way out, Biden is on his way in, and while things may be rocky for a while yet, we're hopeful. Still, there is work to do, and we plan to be part of it.

Fandom Trumps Hate is back for a fifth (holy smokes!) year, raising money for a host of excellent organizations that are resisting the Trump agenda and fighting to protect those whom it seeks to harm. We hope you'll join us for another year of channeling fandom into activism.

2021 AUCTION CALENDAR

Wednesday, Jan 20th (Inauguration Day!): signups open

Monday Jan 31st: fanworks from FTH2020 due (details on extended deadlines and grace periods here)

Tuesday, Feb 2nd: signups close

Thursday, Feb 18th: browsing period begins*

Monday, Feb 22nd, 8am EST: bidding begins

Friday, Feb 26th, 8pm EST: bidding closes

Friday, March 5th: proof of donation due from bidders

Friday, December 31st:** fanworks due

* browsing period is a time before bidding opens when all fanwork offers are visible. it’s a great time to figure out what auctions interest you, or to catch and correct errors in your own signup

** Subject to change in the event of additional world-altering crises

LIST OF SUPPORTED NONPROFITS

We continue putting our support behind smaller organizations that are doing important progressive work. This year’s nonprofits include immigrant protection organizations, education organizations that are combating racism and antisemitism, community-based environmental groups, organizations working for the integrity of the press and of US elections, and more. You can find the full list here!

Creators may also add in one other nonprofit of their choice. You can read more about it here.

If you'd like to make a donation on behalf of the Regiment of Fan Laborers -- either to one of this year's supported orgs or to one of two relief organizations in central Texas -- you can read more about that here.

FAQ

All of your basic questions answered (we hope)! If there’s something you’re curious about that’s not there, try checking the FAQ tag. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, please send us an email at fandomtrumpshate at gmail dot com.

We’ve also added a new page on bidding policies.

And here's info on our efforts to boost fan labor with the Regiment of Fan Laborers (ROFL).

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Look, shit is pretty bad right now. We appear to be in the early stages of a major global war. Large parts of the world are literally on fire. Antisemitism and anti-blackness are on the rise throughout the US, white supremacist militias are organizing public gatherings, and both LGBTQ+ rights and women’s rights are under increasingly dire threat, at both national and local levels. It’s a crappy way to start a decade.

If you’re like us, you’re feeling torn between wanting to retreat into fandom and wishing you could do something to help fix at least a little bit of everything that’s going wrong.

The good news is: you can do both at the same time. Fandom Trumps Hate is back for a fourth (fourth!) year, raising money for a host of excellent organizations that are resisting the Trump agenda and fighting to protect those whom it seeks to harm. We’re hoping you’ll be back to join us, and help make this the biggest and most successful auction yet.

Quick links:
FAQ
List of supported nonprofits for 2020
Policy on donations to other nonprofits

...plus info on our efforts to boost fan labor and about our Fan Crafts Bazaar.

2020 AUCTION CALENDAR

~~Monday, Jan 13th: creator signups open~~
~~Friday, January 31st: creator signups close~~
~~Monday, February 17th: Browsing week begins~~
~~Monday, February 24th, 8am EST: Bidding opens~~
~~Friday, February 28th, 8pm EST: Bidding closes~~
Friday, March 6th, 8pm EST: Proof of donation due from winning bidders
Thursday, December 31st, 11:59pm EST: Fanworks due

LIST OF SUPPORTED NONPROFITS

We are continuing our policy from last year of putting our support behind smaller organizations that are doing important progressive work. This year’s nonprofits include immigrant protection organizations, education organizations that are combating racism and antisemitism, community-based environmental groups, organizations working for the integrity of the press and of US elections, and more. You can find the full list here!

We’re also continuing the policy of allowing creators to add in one other nonprofit of their choice. You can read more about it here.

FAQ

All of your basic questions answered (we hope)! if there’s something you’re curious about that’s not there, try checking the FAQ tag. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, please send us an email at fandomtrumpshate at gmail dot com.

We’ve also added a new page on bidding policies.

BIDDING IS NOW CLOSED. We will be in touch with creators, and with auction winners, over the next few days. Once we've collected proof of donation from everyone -- which will be within a couple of days of the March 6th deadline -- we will announce this year's totals.

Donations to ROFL are still being accepted! You can donate here until 8pm on March 1st.

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BIDDING IS CLOSED for the 2019 FTH auction.

Thank you all for helping us raise $23,435 this year! Signups for 2020 will be announced in December.

In the meantime, you can enjoy all the fanworks coming out of this year's auction over at

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We're excited about this year's Fandom Trumps Hate auction, and we hope you are too! You can find the calendar below.

Sunday, January 6th: creator signups open.

Friday, February 1st: creator signups close.

Tuesday, February 19th: Browsing week begins.

Tuesday, February 26th, 8pm EST: Bidding opens

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

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

* Browsing week? What's that?
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.

Curious about FTH? Read about us here.

Check out this year's list of supported nonprofits, along with our donation policy.

Still got questions? Here's our FAQ. (and if your question isn't answered there, check out the comments on this posts and the other three linked above -- we've answered some questions there, too.)