*Straightens up and strides onto the stage of Chuck’s Horrible Minds weblog.*
*Chuck holds up an indication: “And ACTION!”*
*Nods at Chuck and clears her throat*
Warmest greetings, everyone! Is that this mic working? *Faucets on mic. Winces on the high-pitched squeal coming from the audio system.* Ack. Proper – let’s get this began:
The Pixel Venture, a 501(c)3 anti-violence in opposition to girls nonprofit, is proud to announce that our Learn For Pixels marketing campaign has reached its 10th annual Worldwide Girls’s Day Version in March 2026.
Learn For Pixels has come a good distance since September 2014 when Chuck himself, Joe Hill, Sarah J. Maas, and 9 different award-winning bestselling SF/F, Horror, and YA authors helped us attain out to their readers and fandoms about violence in opposition to girls (VAW) and lift funds to maintain our anti-VAW work alive. Simply over a decade on with virtually 300 writer livestreams, over 100 AMAs, 23 fundraisers, and 1 Shirley Jackson Award- and Audie Award-nominated charity anthology beneath our belt, we’re persevering with to develop our archive of worldwide accessible assets about VAW for geeks, guide lovers, fandoms, mother and father, lecturers, and children, in addition to leveraging the ability of style fiction and storytelling to coach folks about VAW. Authors, editors, publishers, and brokers have additionally helped us increase roughly $10,000 per yr by offering unique goodies as thank-you treats for readers, followers, and guide collectors who donate to help our work.
You’re most likely considering: “Candy! I’ll go scope it out. So why the visitor publish on Chuck’s weblog?”
The quick reply: “As a result of we want your assist to succeed in our $5,000 objective for the tenth annual Worldwide Girls’s Day Version of Learn For Pixels and hold our work alive on this [insert expletive of your choice] yr of 2026.”
Preventing the nice struggle whereas grappling with the results of elevated geopolitical turbulence worldwide in 2026 is taking a toll on our group, because it has with many small grassroots-run nonprofits. Girls’s organizations have skilled many years of scarce funding for the general girls’s rights motion and girls’s human rights are sometimes one of many first casualties in turbulent occasions reminiscent of these. The truth is, UN Girls sounded the alarm in summer time 2025 that the funding scenario is so dire that as much as 60% of nonprofits and charities engaged on girls’s rights are susceptible to shutting down. Because of the Struggle on Iran which has despatched international inflation additional spiraling, our 10th annual Worldwide Girls’s Day fundraiser is progressing so slowly even Treebeard can outpace it. It’s been virtually a month and we’re caught at $3,355, which is simply 67% of the best way to our very modest $5,000 in a single fundraiser so you’ll be able to think about our rising concern. Whereas we’re 100% volunteer-staffed, we do have payments to pay in order that we will hold our campaigns, packages, and companies working.
Chuck, who has been a stalwart supporter of our work for years, obtained our SOS and leaped into motion by publishing this weblog publish to spice up the sign for our fundraiser.
So right here my workforce and I are, with Sexual Assault Consciousness Month 2026 simply across the nook, presenting 5 implausible the reason why it is best to contemplate giving to our fundraiser to assist get us to our $5,000 end line by our prolonged deadline of April 15th 2026:
Incredible Cause to Donate Now #1: Assist accessible data for victims and survivors of VAW… whereas turbo-charging your summer time studying
One of many core companies that The Pixel Venture gives is bridging the data hole that victims and survivors encounter when attempting to get assist. Our each day helpline retweet session, which posts home violence and rape/sexual assault helplines for girls in 205 nations worldwide from 8.00PM to midnight Japanese Time, 24/7, one year a yr, has now transitioned to Bluesky. Moreover, we proceed to answer people contacting us for assist, doing the analysis legwork to supply them with details about particular sufferer help companies of their a part of the world, and incorporating this life-saving data within the books, movies, social media posts and different awareness-raising instruments we deploy.
THE WIN-WIN FACTOR: Donate to our fundraiser and replenish your stack of summer time 2026 reads on the similar time! From signed uncommon/restricted/luxe editions to goodie bundles filled with books and swag to single signed titles, we’ve got book-filled treats for each donation stage from luminaries reminiscent of Carrie Vaughn, Charlaine Harris, Delia Pitts, J.C. Cervantes, Kelsea Yu, Kristy Park Kulski, Libba Bray, Linda D. Addison, Nicole Kurtz, Subterranean Press, and extra. And when you’re savoring the satisfaction of guaranteeing you don’t run out of nice tales to fill your summer time days, additionally savor the truth that your donation will help our packages and initiatives that join victims and survivors of VAW with the assistance that they want.
Incredible Cause to Donate At present #2: Assist assets for educating of us about VAW… whereas getting assist to your writing
We now have constructed an ever-expanding archive of practically 300 useful resource articles up to now about every little thing from cease road harassment to lists of organizations tackling every little thing from baby marriage to MMIW (Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Girls). Moreover, our web site has beginner-level primers about various kinds of VAW, together with violence in opposition to trans girls, on-line violence in opposition to girls, bride trafficking/kidnapping, and obstetric violence and our Fb web page is a wonderful just-in-time supply for the newest headlines and articles about VAW.
THE WIN-WIN FACTOR: Whether or not you’re a budding author or skilled writer who’s contemplating making a donation, we’ve got a stellar line-up of Learn For Pixels writer alumni providing critique bundles for WIPs (works-in-progress) and/or 1-to-1 video chats centered on the craft of writing and/or suggestions in regards to the publishing business. Taking part authors embrace Dorothy Koomson (Crime/Thriller), Geneve Flynn (Horror), Juliette Wade (Speculative Fiction), Karen Odden (Historic Thriller), and Sarah Tantlinger (Horror and Poetry). Get pleasure from understanding that if you are getting knowledgeable assist to your WIP or fixing a seemingly intractable writing problem, you’re additionally supporting the creation and growth of on-line assets for educating of us all over the world about VAW.
Incredible Cause to Donate Now #3: Assist on-line platforms for folks to talk up about VAW… whereas being immortalised by your favourite writer
A key pillar of our activism and advocacy work is offering digital platforms which are secure areas for folks from totally different walks of life to talk up about VAW. Each October for the previous 10 years, we’ve got hosted the “Folks and Pets Say NO!” picture assertion marketing campaign through Fb and Instagram for folks and furbabies from all walks of life to step up publicly to name for an finish to VAW throughout Home Violence Consciousness Month. We additionally provide VAW survivors and dads who’re male allies alternatives to talk up through weblog interview initiatives such because the Survivor Tales weblog interview collection and the Voices of Dads Towards VAW interview collection.
THE WIN-WIN FACTOR: Whereas your donation retains our platforms out there for people to talk up about VAW, you’ll be able to get pleasure from being immortalised by your favourite writer, all within the title of supporting a great trigger. For this fundraiser, award-winning authors J.C. Cervantes and Premee Mohamed are every completely happy to tuckerise you or reward you the honour of naming a minor character of their subsequent guide or quick story. You possibly can even donate to get it as a novel and lifelong birthday current for a pal or member of the family!
Incredible Cause to Donate At present #4: Assist us increase the sign for anti-VAW activists and advocates worldwide… whereas gifting your geeky family members with terrific treats
A longstanding a part of our work includes spotlighting how anti-VAW advocates, activists, and organizations worldwide are altering the world for girls and ladies, in addition to their concepts about what folks can do to assist cease VAW of their communities and nations. Our Inspirational Interviews collection has been working for a decade and counting. We additionally run topical periods with anti-VAW advocates and activists talking about their work and educating folks about VAW.
THE WIN-WIN FACTOR: When you have a geeky pal or member of the family and also you see a Learn For Pixels goodie supplied by their favourite writer out there on our fundraising web page, donate to snag that distinctive deal with (reminiscent of Bram Stoker Award-winning Horror poet Linda D. Addison writing an acrostic poem primarily based in your title and acclaimed Fantasy writer L.Penelope writing a micro-story for you) and delight them whereas supporting sign boosts for anti-VAW activists and advocates. BONUS: You’ll have an fascinating story to inform them about the place the reward got here from. It’d even be an amazing opener for chatting with them about VAW.
Incredible Cause to Donate At present #5: Assist the correct of ladies and ladies to stay a life with out violence
Almost 1 in 3 girls and ladies worldwide expertise some type of violence of their lifetime. When it comes to home violence alone, over 1 in 4 girls beneath 50 have skilled bodily or sexual violence from a male companion.
So donate to our fundraiser since you consider in supporting efforts to stop, cease, and finish VAW. Whether or not you can provide us $5 or $50 or $500 to assist us attain our $5,000 objective (and even zoom previous it to a stretch objective), each cent counts.
(And once you donate to us, please additionally contemplate donating both money or provides to your native girls’s shelter or rape disaster middle. Like us, they want all the assistance they’ll get.)
It’s time to cease violence in opposition to girls. Collectively.
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Keen on trying out our Learn For Pixels fundraiser and making a donation to assist hold our work alive? Go right here.
Regina Yau is the founder and president of The Pixel Venture, a digital volunteer-led international 501(c)3 nonprofit group on a mission to lift consciousness, funds and volunteer energy for the trigger to finish violence in opposition to girls on the intersection of social media, new applied sciences, and in style tradition/the Arts. A Rhodes Scholar with a double Masters in Girls’s Research and Chinese language Research, she has a lifelong dedication to combating for girls’s rights. Along with working The Pixel Venture, Regina additionally teaches English to middle-schoolers and high-schoolers, writes tales about cheeky little fox spirits and terrorist chickens, bakes far too many carb-and-sugar-loaded goodies, and might be discovered artistically posing the other way up in Aerial Yoga class.
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