Why The Woodlands?

Here’s to the badass women living next door

This first issue of She’s Legend is focused on The Woodlands, Texas, my hometown. In fact, the entire magazine was inspired by the friends I’ve made and the women I’ve met since moving here six years ago from Seattle. From the moment I changed my area code from 206 to 713, I began making friends with women who inspired and challenged me through their activism. 

I’ve always been leisurely civically active. Interested, certainly, but fully committed, not so much. But the women I’ve met since living here have gone all-in. Whether they are rescuing animals, fighting for social justice, raising their voices against gun violence or demanding inclusivity, these women are unapologetically passionate about their causes. And that is “causes” as in plural. They may be singular in their devotion to justice, but not in the issues they support. 

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These women are not unique to The Woodlands or Texas. “Trouble-making” women have long been the instigators and agitators for change and progress. There have always been badass women next-door, so it’s time they got their due. 

Calamity Jane, a.k.a. Martha Jane Canary, once famously said, “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” The women profiled in our first-ever issue of She’s Legend have done just that: Gone ahead and become legends. •