H*yas for Choice (HFC), a pro-abortion student group, and Sexual Assault Peer Educators (SAPE), a student group that advocates for sexual assault survivors, held Valentine’s Day inspired fundraisers selling condom grams and consent grams.
HFC, which is not officially recognized by Georgetown University, raised funds for internal needs such as purchasing condoms and lube, which they distributed while tabling in the Leavey Center or Red Square. SAPE donated their proceeds to D.C. Safe, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping sexual assault survivors.
Over the past few weeks, the HFC tables have also been promoting and selling condom grams, or Valentine’s Day cards with condoms attached, for between $1 and $2.
Kat Scarborough (CAS ’26), the head of tabling and contraceptives for HFC, said the grams are a fun way to educate community members about safe sex.
“It’s a really great intersection between doing something fun and positive and bringing to light a really lighthearted view of sexuality. It’s along with providing reproductive justice and making our campus a bit safer, but not doing it in such a serious, heavy way as we sometimes can do,” Scarborough said in an interview with The Hoya.
According to Scarborough, the funds raised from the Valentine’s Day effort will mark the club’s first internal fundraising event this year. She added that funds are typically given to charities like Calvary Women’s Services, an organization that aims to help women overcome homelessness.
“We haven’t done an internal H*yas for Choice fundraising event in a really long time just because of how many alumni donations we get. We have a big donation jar on our table and people and professors walk by and they donate money,” Scarborough said.
Anouk Hirano (CAS ’27), director of communications and media for HFC, said she designed this year’s line of condom grams, which have puns and jokes inspired by pop culture references.
“I tried to pull off what is trendy, so a lot of the Valentine’s Day stuff is more comedic and references the early 2010’s Tumblr style,” Hirano said in an interview with The Hoya.
One condom gram reads, “wanna see if it really tastes like pepsi cola?” in reference to Lana Del Rey’s song “Cola.” Another reads, “be my certified lover girl?” with a picture of Drake, a nod to his album “Certified Lover Boy.”
Hirano said Drake led the condom gram sales, which totaled over 100 for the club.
“I really like the design of the Lana Del Rey one, but I also just love Lana Del Rey. I’d say it’s the Drake ones that sold the most, people really liked the Drake ones,” she said.
Alex Huss, staff clinician and interpersonal violence specialist at Georgetown Health Education Services and a co-mentor for SAPE, said consent was at the center of the theme for SAPE’s own Valentine’s fundraiser.
“Valentine’s Day celebrates love and intimacy, and the building blocks of those kinds of relationships start with and continue with ongoing consent,” Huss wrote to The Hoya.
SAPE also tabled in the Leavey Center to sell their consent grams, which contained phrases such as “Bee Mine (But Only If You Want To)” and “Will You Be My Valentine? Yes, No, Maybe. Maybe Does Not Mean Yes.”
SAPE donated the proceeds from the consent grams to D.C. Safe, a charity SAPE selected due to the resources they offer to individuals who have survived domestic violence.
“They provide a wide array of resources to D.C. residents who experience assault, including legal support,” Huss wrote. “We were especially drawn to their support of nonbinary individuals who have experienced interpersonal violence.”
Huss said that SAPE sold over 50 consent grams to students, alongside many monetary donations. She added that the consent grams are becoming a yearly fundraising event.
“Consent grams are quickly becoming an annual tradition,” Huss wrote. “An opportunity to encourage conversations around consent in the Georgetown community while supporting local resources is a tradition worth having.”
