I will use Blame to donate to Orlando.
Hi all,
This weekend, we lost 50 lives in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
We are angry, sad, hurt, horrified, helpless, scared. We mourn the lives we lost. We tremble for the safety of those we love. We worry about the safety of friends and family at pride events across the country this month. In the queer community, we worry for our own safety.
Those feelings are intense, and they're hard. But as we feel them, let's do something with them.
Please, this week, I urge you to reach out to your loved ones in the LGBT community—and particularly people of color in the LGBT community—to let them know that you love them, that they matter, that you will fight for them.
Please look for opportunities to help, to volunteer, to give. Support the organizations that support the LGBT community. If you want to see legislative change to prevent future tragedies like this, write your state representatives. Speak out when you hear people saying bigoted things against the queer community—their words create a latent culture that allows hatred to survive.
In Florida, as in many places, that latent culture of hatred can make being queer feel like a life sentence. Tatya and Kris deal with it in Blame—as does another character whose latino family refuses to accept her. Their stories are NOT the stories of the Orlando victims. But their stories share some of the experiences that make allyship so important to the LGBT community.
So, for the next thirty days, I will give all proceeds from Blame to the fund supporting victims of the Orlando shooting and their families: https://t.co/SHO149Kapm. Amazon takes 30%, so that's $7 per book.
I will also match these proceeds up to $2500. So I'll donate $14 per book sale, in total, until I've spent $2500 of my own money. If, by some miracle, book sales exceed this amount, then I no longer have the money in my pocket to match proceeds. But if we reach that point, I will continue to donate the proceeds—so the fund will get the $7 per book that would normally go to me.
This is where you can buy Blame: https://www.amazon.com/Blame-Sometime...
In times of loss, we have to stand together and help however we can. I hope that Blame can provide a smile to a few readers and make a positive contribution to the LGBT community.
This weekend, we lost 50 lives in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
We are angry, sad, hurt, horrified, helpless, scared. We mourn the lives we lost. We tremble for the safety of those we love. We worry about the safety of friends and family at pride events across the country this month. In the queer community, we worry for our own safety.
Those feelings are intense, and they're hard. But as we feel them, let's do something with them.
Please, this week, I urge you to reach out to your loved ones in the LGBT community—and particularly people of color in the LGBT community—to let them know that you love them, that they matter, that you will fight for them.
Please look for opportunities to help, to volunteer, to give. Support the organizations that support the LGBT community. If you want to see legislative change to prevent future tragedies like this, write your state representatives. Speak out when you hear people saying bigoted things against the queer community—their words create a latent culture that allows hatred to survive.
In Florida, as in many places, that latent culture of hatred can make being queer feel like a life sentence. Tatya and Kris deal with it in Blame—as does another character whose latino family refuses to accept her. Their stories are NOT the stories of the Orlando victims. But their stories share some of the experiences that make allyship so important to the LGBT community.
So, for the next thirty days, I will give all proceeds from Blame to the fund supporting victims of the Orlando shooting and their families: https://t.co/SHO149Kapm. Amazon takes 30%, so that's $7 per book.
I will also match these proceeds up to $2500. So I'll donate $14 per book sale, in total, until I've spent $2500 of my own money. If, by some miracle, book sales exceed this amount, then I no longer have the money in my pocket to match proceeds. But if we reach that point, I will continue to donate the proceeds—so the fund will get the $7 per book that would normally go to me.
This is where you can buy Blame: https://www.amazon.com/Blame-Sometime...
In times of loss, we have to stand together and help however we can. I hope that Blame can provide a smile to a few readers and make a positive contribution to the LGBT community.
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