Frequently Asked Questions
Membership
- How can I become a Star Wars Chick?
- Are you female? Do you like Star Wars? Have you visited StarWarsChicks.com more than once? If you answered yes to all three, guess what - You're a Star Wars Chick! Yes, it's that simple.
- What if I'm a guy?
- Then you shall be deemed an Honorary Star Wars Chick. Welcome!
Now that you know you are a Star Wars Chick (or Honorary SWC), there are many ways in which you can get involved and help spread Chick-dom throughout the Star Wars galaxy:
- Join one of our mailing lists and meet fellow Star Wars Chicks from across the globe.
- Purchase or borrow a Star Wars novel and read it. We recommend beginning with the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zhan.
- Help us support breast cancer research by supporting our Fight for the Cure campaign.
- Submit some of your fanfiction to one of our archives.
- Explore any of the other areas of our website, and be proud to be a Chick!
Fight for the Cure Campaign
- Where can I get cool Star Wars Chicks merchandise?
- Star Wars Chicks is currently selling lapel pins in the shape of our Star Wars Chick in the Star Wars Chicks Shop. Each pin costs $10 USD, plus shipping, and all net proceeds from our campaign will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
- How can I buy one of your cool t-shirts?
- Unfortunately, you can't at the moment. Our t-shirt sale occured in the fall of 1999 and we have not produced any more since then. We do hope to have another t-shirt sale at some point, but we are unable to say exactly when this will be at this time.
- But I already have several pins and a t-shirt and would like more Star Wars Chicks merchandise!
- We are aware of this and appreciate your interest! We are investigating what other items we can provide to Star Wars Chicks everywhere. Please be patient with us, as we are a completely volunteer run organization and we are doing our best!
History of Star Wars Chicks
- A Founders Tale: as told by JediGirl (April, 2005)
- Almost exactly 6 years ago I was regular poster at JediNet.com. I would chat on their boards on a daily basis. One day I got a personal email from another female fan with the screen-name of MissJedi. She had
really connected with a lot of comments I made on the boards and was interested in becoming email pals. We hit it off right away. After about a month or so of emailing back and forth about our shared passion --
Star Wars -- MissJedi posed the idea of starting up our own Star Wars fan site, but dedicated to the female fan.
We had found that most of the sites out there at the time were very much more based to a male audience, and the forums that the sites had were largely dominated by guys. Many times when a female would make a post regarding their opinion about Star Wars, they got either overlooked or ridiculed, "Oh you're just a girl, what do you know." Also, females seemed to be more interested in the characters of Star Wars rather than what the model number is of the Correllian cruiser that so-and-so owned. Not to say that there aren't women out there that do enjoy that aspect of Star Wars, but for the most part, females have a different perspective on the Star Wars stories.
We thought it would be great to have a site where women could feel comfortable in expressing their fandom, their passion, their opinion.
We launched Star Wars Chicks in March of 1999. It took off faster than the Millennium Falcon. Women from all over the world flocked to our site. We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm.
Sometimes people ask, "Why did you call yourselves 'chicks'? Isn't that a negative term?" We don't see it that way. A 'chick' is someone with attitude... and female Star Wars fans definitely have that! Our mascot expresses it all: "I'm a Star Wars fan and I don't care what you think. Don't knock me!" Women really love her.
Statistics
- Fight for the Cure Campaign
- The Fight for the Cure Campaign began in 1999 with the sale of 500 t-shirts. The shirts were officially licensed by Lucasfilm and raised $8,366.00 for the Kansas Cancer Institute. Shortly after the sale of the t-shirts, Star Wars Chicks offered bath sets, pens, and bumper stickers, bringing the campaign total nearly $10,000.
In the fall of 2004, Star Wars Chicks debuted the Star Wars Chick Lapel Pin and raised $8,418.43 for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. More pins were ordered in April 2005 and are still available. To date, the Fight for the Cure Campaign has raised over $23,000.
Many more details regarding our Fight for the Cure campaign and breast cancer can be found at http://starwarschicks.com/fightforthecure/