Monday, April 13, 2009

A revolution of sorts

Ashley Mae and I are starting a revolution. It involves postcards, empowering stories, and fashion magazines.

To join us in the revolution, think of an empowering story about womanhood. It can be a time you felt empowered as a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as a human being. Write a vignette about an empowered or strong woman that you know. If you'd like us to take your story on our revolutionary activities, you can leave it in a comment, or e-mail it to caitlinpcarroll@gmail.com if you're more comfortable with that. Or: you can write it on a plain white postcard yourself and stick it in a random fashion magazine at Barnes & Noble (and do as many as you'd like, ask friends to do it, announce it in good news minute, etc). We're hoping to have hundreds next week to blanket all of the magazines at Barnes & Noble in Provo. Write a statement at the bottom to encourage readers to pass it on: ask them to write their own story on a postcard, and put both of the cards back into 2 separate magazines with the same message. Pay it forward. Empower women. Let's do it.

4 comments:

  1. Courier font is hard to read. I'll try to think of a good example where I felt empowered as a woman. So many to choose from... :)

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  2. Seriously? Worse than the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Saur Revolution of 1978, or the Romanian Revolution of 1989? I think I would consider those a bit more worthy of your condemnation.

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  3. Man, that's why I wrote the word REVOLUTION like this: 'revolution'.
    i.e. 'so called revolution'. I'd hardly class defacing property and ticking off Barnes & Noble patrons by shoving an unwarranted agenda in their face a revolution.

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