*fist pump* Yeah!
When we were planning our online auction #CrimeWriters4TransRights Val McDermid was near the top of our list of donors and she came through without hesitation 🤩
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Even though the auction portion ended at 11:45 PM EDT April 1st, which was Tuesday, our total keeps growing!
RAISED
$62,517.79
312.6%
REACHED!
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screencap from auction home page Even though the auction portion ended at 11:45 PM EDT April 1st, which was Tuesday, our total keeps growing! RAISED $62,517.79 312.6% REACHED! Donate Now [button in bright green]
Well, here's a thing that's happening.
Thank you, everyone who's still mashing that Donate button on our site!!! ❤️🔥
#TLCAuction
#TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
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So grateful for the support and love and enthusiasm for this effort 💗
The auction ended at 289% of our goal aka almost $57.8k ❤️🔥
Donations continue to come in—thank you!
We couldn't have done this without you.
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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‼️ FINAL FIVE MINUTES ‼️
Get those bids and buys in now, lovelies!
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❤️🔥 FIFTEEN MINUTES TO GO! ❤️🔥
Get those bids and buys in now, lovelies!
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✨ We're in the final half hour, lovelies! ✨
AND under $100 from $56k RIGHT NOW
Thanks to everyone who's battling it out in the bids, all in the name of this important cause! ❤️🔥
Let's gooo 🚀
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🚀 UNDER 60 MINUTES LEFT 🚀
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❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 WE JUST PASSED $55 000 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
I am so proud of this community!
Also cheering on all the people out here in the bidding streets fighting for their items!
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#Writers4TransRights
Special thanks to our friends in #romancelandia 💗
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screencap from auction page 2 items at Buy It Now for $25 each Cozy Crafts: Lit Kit #1 LAST ONE: Rainbow Bookmark and Inclusion keychain Cozy Crafts: Lit Kit #3 LAST ONE: Rainbow Bookmark and "Chance of Smut" keychain
screencap from auction page 2 items at Buy It Now for $25 each Cozy Crafts: Lit Kit #4 Trans Pride Bookmark and Tropes keychain Cozy Crafts: Lit Kit #5 Trans Flag Bookmark and Inclusion keychain
screencap from auction page 2 items Cozy Crafts: Lit Kit #6 Trans Pride Bookmark and "Chance of Smut" keychain Buy It Now: $25 Cozy Crafts: Woven Wall Hanging "you are enough" Buy It Now: $90
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRIghts
The last remaining items from the original Crafters Bazaar!
These are all Buy It Now items, so if you perhaps found yourself outbid and still want a way to contribute...
Find them all here:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Just a few hours left in the auction. You know what that means - it's time to swoop in and outbid people! Or snatch up buy it now items! Or both!
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
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All righty! I just released the entirety of our Cozy Craft goodies, all available as Buy It Now items!
Please buy and boost! ⤵️
Thank youuuuuuu ❤️🔥
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#romancelandia
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The Angel Dare books I donated have been bid up to 200 bucks, and the whole #CrimeWriters4TransRights auction is well over 50K. DON’T STOP NOW!!! www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Wahoo! New Featured Items on our wee Pride celebration day aka final day of bidding!
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Bid & boost!
Help us reach $60k!! 🚀
🔗 www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
(Chain Mail Jewellery, friends!!!)
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Ellison Cooper" + a photo of a white woman in a caramel-coloured leather jacket, smiling enigmatically Signed Time’s Undoing / Cheryl Head Character Name / Kellye Garrett Wildlife Rehab AMA "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
Eep! I lost track of my organizers..!
🔗 to bid & boost:
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: Ellison Cooper (aka Jennifer Dornan-Fish)
And Jen makes 6: our original crime writers cabal who started with an anthology and pivoted to this auction!
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Sandra SG Wong" + a photo of a smiling Chinese woman in a striped t-shirt and a fierce middle-part in her hair. Over her left shoulder is part of the painting, Coming Home, by Dawn-Marie Marchand. Quilted Sneakers Trans Pride Gemstone Earrings Name a Murder Method + Victim / Yasmin Angoe Describe a Meal / Ann Cleeves Custom Flash Fic / Premee Mohamed "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: C'est moi!
Still time to snap up fantastic items!
Can we get to $55k? 🚀
🔗 to bid & boost:
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
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(FTR I hold no ill will whatsoever toward @oliviawrites.bsky.social for buying those Quilted Sneakers. None. Whatsoever)
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Brenda Buchanan" + a photo of a smiling white woman in a black turtleneck and dark-framed glasses Crime Bake reg JP Howard poetry Tracy Clark book club chat David Heska Wanbli-Weiden book club chat "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
🔗 to bid & boost:
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: Brenda Buchanan (like Cheryl, not really on here but @brendabuchanan.bsky.social)
Another fab Advisor
If you've been eyeing that Lobster Kit, folks, you've got Brenda to thank!
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Organizers Picks: @johncopenhaver.bsky.social
Another of our wonderful Advisors, who patiently put up with the many, MANY emails flying back and forth 😅
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E.A. Aymar got us all together in the first place 2 years ago, so we honestly wouldn't be here without him. We might be less exhausted though 😅
Check out his thread of his Organizers Picks! ⬇️
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Cheryl Head" + a photo of a smiling black woman wearing glasses and a pink turtleneck top Pro Research Support / Susanna Calkins All the poetry! / JP Howard, E. Ethelbert Miller, Judy Grahn Query Crit / Chantelle Osman First Ed. / Katherine Forrest Describe a meal /Ann Cleeves "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
🔗 to bid & boost:
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#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: Cheryl Head (who's not really on here but @cheaddc.bsky.social )
Another lovely stalwart in our origin story, Cheryl is one of the auction site engineers (along with Susanna and me lol)
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Greg Herren" + a black and white photo of a white man in t-shirt, jeans, and flip-flops, sitting with arms crossed over his upright knees, wearing a mischievous expression Jewelle Gomez signed manuscript of the forthcoming sequel to THE GILDA STORIES Ellen Byron Book Club visit! Christa Faust's Angel Dare series, signed Susanna Calkins' research assistance! "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
🔗 to bid & boost:
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#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: Greg Herren aka @scottynola.bsky.social
Like Susanna, one of our original organizers from 2 years back, a stalwart with a sharp wit
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Robyn Gigl" + a photo of a smiling white woman in a navy blue sweater Signed book / Sarah Weinman Signed Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn Signed Memoir / Congresswoman Sarah McBride Signed books / TJ Klune Signed Presumed Guilty / Scott Turow Signed It Feels Right / Walter Mosley Diamond Pendant Necklace "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
🔗 to bid & boost:
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: @robyngigl.bsky.social
the first person we asked to be an Advisor
and a joy to work with
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A graphic created in the same teal as the auction logo, which is featured at top right. organizers picks "Susanna Calkins" + a photo of a smiling white woman in a black cardigan over a terracotta-coloured top Character Name / Mia Manansala 1-of-a-kind “Golden Age” quilt Personal Librarian Diamond Pendant Necklace Mixology Lesson Signed Books / Scott Turow, Rachel Howzell Hall, Tara Laskowski, Wanda Morris "Final Day for bidding!" in pink 32auctions.com/writers4transrights Because trans rights are human rights
🔗 to bid & boost:
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#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Organizers Picks: Susanna Calkins,
our Queen of Spreadsheets
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We did it! We did it! We did it! We did it! We did it!
We reached $50 000 in the #TLCAuction to benefit the vital affirming work of #TransLawCenter ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Let's find out how much higher we can go! 🚀🚀🚀
Who's with meeeeeee?
*laughs deliriously*
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screencap from auction home page Featured Items: LGBTQIA+ 3 autographed books: Ellison Cooper, current high bid $85 Lynn Ames, current high bid $75 Margot Douaihy, current high bid $100
screencap from auction home page Featured Items: LGBTQIA+ 3 autographed books: Rob Osler, current high bid $100 Roxane Gay, current high bid $140 Jeffrey Marks, current high bid $50
screencap from auction home page Featured Items: LGBTQIA+ 4 items: Books (Sandra Moran), current high bid $30 Character Name (Mia P. Manansala), current high bid $150 Conference registration, Saints & Sinners Lit Festival, current high bid $65 Consultation and Advice (Finial Burnett), current high bid, $75
Today we're featuring our many incredible LGBTQIA+ donors and their items! We have so many that each batch is only up for a few hours 😇
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
Bid & boost! 🚀
🔗 www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
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LOOK LOOK LOOK!!!
We're a hair's-breadth away from $50 000 raised for #TransLawCenter ❤️🔥
#TLCAuction
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#Writers4TransRights
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Getting down to the wire on the #CrimeWriters4TransRights auction and we are so close to raising 50K for the Transgender Law Center! Don’t stop now, Faustketeers!! www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Shout out to our sponsors for partially matching bids from today:
🌟 Sara Paretsky
🌟 Rob Byrne
🌟 The Publishing Triangle
🌟 Teresa S. Rankin
🌟 @sincnational.bsky.social
🌟 Marco Carocari & Mark Gutkowski
Big thanks to them for agreeing to throw $$$ into the pool!
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Hey all, can I tempt you into checking out these items?
We got cozy crafts, we got an MS critique, we got a writers workshop, we got an author pep talk...
They could do with some love & attention! 😃
#TLCAuction to benefit #TransLawCenter
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#Writers4TransRights
#TDoV
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We've blown past our goal and raised more than $45,000!
Want to help? Do it today! (Bid on me...please!)
www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...
#TDoV
#CrimeWriters4TransRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransDayofVisibility
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