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Two weeks ago today, our friend Ali Pullen in Tulsa, Oklahoma - she bartends at the Soundpony, does art, rides bikes, and helps out recently-released-from-prison ladies - gave to Pearl for her 21st birthday a book called Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti, feminist author and creator of feministing.com (THE INTERNET!). Feminist sentiment had always been present in Pearl and Kylie, but had been languishing in varying degrees of latency for awhile. This particular book, however, probably due to its totally rad deficiency in impractical theory, revitalized those parts of our brains which are now yammering away about equal participation in society instead of just muttering about petty sexism. 

We found two other girls, through Facebook (INTERNET, WILL U BE OUR BFFL? Y/N). We set up a coffee meeting. We drank coffee and let each other know what we thought women in agri-college town Stillwater, Oklahoma really needed. Here are a few things we came up with:

-Exposure of "crisis pregnancy centers," such as Birth Choice and Stillwater Life Services. 

-Sexual education to remedy the damage done by "abstinence-only" sex ed programs.

-Consciousness-raising about the possibility of self-worth that is based on our accomplishments, instead of on our bodies. 

-Redefining "feminists" not as a dirty word implying an exclusionary hairy-legged man-haters club but as a term describing anyone who believes in the totally rad and fun idea of equality of the sexes in society.

This blog will document our "real" activism on our own and with the NOW chapter on the OSU campus, as well as almost anything else we feel is relevant - news pieces, art shows, some guy telling us we actually look pretty when we smile - whatever we feel might strengthen our resolve to advocate for feminism's worth, even in little old Stillwater.