Anti Pink T’s is a venture started by two moms who didn’t like the tee shirts that were being offered to girls and women at major retailers. They saw shirts that define females by what they look like and what they buy. Shirts that reinforced old stereotypes of women being pretty and weak and …not so smart. Shirts that dismiss women’s actions and thoughts and dreams for the future.
They complained about it and heard a lot of “Yeah, that sucks!” from the moms and dads they know. Then they thought: “Hey one of us is a designer, and the other one of us is a writer, and we both feel strongly that someone should make cool empowering shirts for girls…” And Anti Pink T’s was born.
Our Mission:
To create tee shirts that we would wear ourselves, give to our women friends, or dress our daughters in. Our shirts are: funny, fierce, empowering, positive, inspirational and aspirational. Our shirts are not: mean-spirited, demeaning, or sexist.
About Us:
Shelley Armstrong is happily married and mother to two boys 14 and 17. Originally from Northern Ireland she spent 16 years living in rainy Seattle where she met both her husband and Christa. She just relocated to sunny Florida last year along with 4 dogs and her horse.
Shelley has worked in design field for over 20 years, twelve of those in the video game industry as designer and creative director and continues to work as a UI design director today
Christa Charter is a mother of three: a 20 year old son, 15 year old daughter and 2 year old daughter. She is married to a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, and lives in Washington State. She worked in the video game industry for almost two decades as a writer, website editor, and community manager. She owns a communications and social media consulting company and is the author of a novel called The Sleepless Nanny.
Shelley and Christa are long-time friends who met in 2002 when they shared an office at Xbox. They have shared work successes, season tickets to the ballet, and playdates, and have supported each other with cocktails and jokes through work stress, divorces, cross-country moves and new marriages.
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