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About Us
Pink Boa Mission Statement
The Pink Boa Society was created to
- Recognize that all women are divine, beautiful, sexy, and powerful creatures
- Teach women that their own body and every other woman's body is perfect
- Work towards equal rights and the empowerment of all women and girls regardless of their sexual orientation, race or politics
- Help women to lead juicy, full, exciting lives, and help them to live out their passions and dreams, regardless of what anyone else has to say about them
- Fight media images that subjugate and degrade women
- Support and recognize the value of all career roles that women choose to take in our society, from stay-at-home mom to CEO of a company, and every job in between
- Stand alongside and support the men who fight for equal rights for women and girls, and to educate the men who don't
- Fight against the abuse of women and children whether that abuse is sexual, emotional, psychological, physical, or financial and to stand up against such abuse when it occurs in our own life and community
- Help us all Live Well, Laugh Often, and Love, Love, Love much
Pink Boa Herstory
The Pink Boa Society was first conceived in December of 2005, when, after a divorce, founder Carrie Tyler decided to melt down her wedding band and have it recreated to use in a self-marriage ceremony. The joyous self-wedding took place in late December among women friends all wearing pink boas, thus the Pink Boa Society was born. Having found the solace and joy of each other's female company the Boas met socially at each other's homes over the next few months to share stories, time, food and hot tubs together, but as many of the best laid plans do they eventually disbanded and dissolved due to life obligations.
Deeply inspired by a women's studies course Carrie enrolled in at UNH in 2007, she resolved to regroup the Boas and to give the organization a purpose: To empower women through knowledge, play, discussion, food, laughter, crying, and pleasure and to recognize and support any other emotion any woman wanted to bring to the table. Inspired but needing help and another brain to bounce ideas off of, she enlisted the help of fellow feminist, mother, dancer, and friend Jennifer Torok. Together the journey began to unfold. And so here we are, writing herstory . . .
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