Supporting Rape Crisis Centers

Stephanie Zvan

Last Saturday, I mentioned that Jim Hines is one of the good guys in the F&SF community. He is also a former rape crisis counselor who writes very well on the topic.

With April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Jim is providing some incentives for people to donate to rape crisis centers, either local centers or RAINN, which offers a single toll-free phone number that will connect victims to local counselors. RAINN also offers online counseling, and it supports both male and female victims.

So, if you have a few bucks you can spare, chip in where it will do some excellent work. Then head on over to Jim’s blog and check out the line-up of F&SF authors he’s persuaded to offer signed copies of their work as incentives for donation. Send him some information on your donation, and you could be the proud owner of one of these. Donate enough (collectively–about $2,000 has been raised in the two days this has been going on so far), and Jim will have to find more great authors and more great books.

This sort of thing is a win for everyone involved. Why not be one of them?

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Supporting Rape Crisis Centers

About the author

Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions. Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird. Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
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