What is a Chickster?

Honestly, we weren’t 100 percent sure, even after we decided to name our magazine that. We’re not totally sure it’s actually a word, but we know we like the sound of it. It sounds really, well, cool.

So to help us determine what it is, we did the only logical thing. We Googled it.

According to the Urban Dictionary, which is something online we’ve stumbled upon that we’ve never heard of until this moment (so obviously it’s extremely credible), a chickster is a “cool lady.”

That seems fair enough. We certainly think we’re cool ladies. If you’re reading this and carrying around two X chromosomes, you’re probably a cool lady too. In fact, we think all our friends, moms and sisters are cool ladies also.

Think our definition of a cool lady is too broad? We think not. We know so many dynamic and interesting women (including ourselves) that live in this amazing city that we wanted to do something to give back. So what are three magazine-obsessed and publishing-savvy chicksters to do? Why create their own magazine, of course.

We hope through Chickster to create a forum and a community of cool ladies hell bent on getting the most out of life, through finding fun new things to do in Austin to revering empowering chick television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and movies starring a character named Darcy with a wet white shirt, to rocking out, whether we’re on stage or off. This is our Chickster promise.

We’re stylish girls with a penchant for spider rolls, vampires, the Alamo Drafthouse, local artists, thrift store finds, theme parties, SoCo, yoga, brunch, and Mexican Martinis, to name just a few things. If that describes you, then Chickster is for you, but even if it doesn’t, we still hope you’ll find something within these pages that resonates with you.

-From the co-founders and editors of Chickster