Our Story: A women-led + community driven initiative

About us

Our Story is a collaborative, diverse, community-driven project created to uplift and empower women + non-binary creatives in web3, online and offline. We aspire to create change in the space with a project that goes beyond the surface level. We’re building a community that understands the meaning of inclusive, while still exceeding current expectations.

Community is a verb, not a buzzword.

What sets Our Story apart from other web3 projects?

Our Story offers more than the typical profile picture project. Artists play an extremely important role in building everything that is web3 so we’ve decided to make this about them and only them.

Our Story is creating an ongoing support system for 600 1/1 creatives in the NFT space. For the first time, the community can pour into creatives without further excluding them from the already existing ecosystem.

This is a MOMENT... A movement with intention.

Our Story combines the energy of artists worldwide and creates a movement centering the voices of women & non-binary individuals while also creating a consistent safe space. This kind of genuine support is not common enough and we hope it will be a driving force in shaping the future of web3 forever.

We’ve set the bar high.

Each NFT will be a unique 1/1 piece of art following a set of criteria we’ve found in some of our favorite and most successful projects. Each piece will be rarer than the one before, offering collectors the maximum value and future upside.

An artist’s craft and process is the best utility.

Below are a few pieces that have been completed by artists in the project:

Women and non-binary individuals in Web3 have an opportunity to be a part of something significant in the current ecosystem. Our main goal is to cultivate a safe space that continues to support, uplift, and empower beyond the projects’ release. In addition, we wish to change the trajectory of women-led projects in the NFT space. Women make up 50% of the population, yet we still fight for recognition, opportunity, and equitability.

Our Story acknowledges that it’s time for reflection, education, celebration, and consistent representation, and that is what we seek to provide.

About the art

Each artist has been asked to create 1 piece symbolizing:

• power

• love

• joy

• strength

• Courage

• Empowerment

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With interpretations of traits they wish to come up with or that we’ve provided beforehand such as but not limited to:

• gold skin

• sparkly skin

• colorful skin

• toothy smiles

• Diasporic headwear

• emotions

• Masks

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We’ve provided each artist the color palette that we’d like for them to use so that our project still has a uniformed look but remains unique all the same. While we have provided these guidelines, we still wish for each artist to create something that speaks to them and showcases their own unique styles.

Walking the road forward

• Our Story uses an artist-first approach. We believe that beautiful art is the best utility any artist can give to the world. Great art happens when artists are free to ideate and experiment. Community helps but fellowship alone isn’t enough. Even a little extra financial security can make a massive difference in quality and output. We aim to do as much as possible
• 100% of the project's primary sales, minus overhead and expenses, will go to the artists. Upon the Project Selling Out. These numbers are tentative pending a proper financial plan. As artists, we believe all artists should be paid fairly for their work. So too should those working to give artists the time and freedom to create.
• With the help of the community, we’d like to allocate 50% of secondary sales on a steady basis to women-led organizations such as DAOS and charities within the web3 space as well as offline.

Mirror Funds Allocation

These funds will sit in a multi-sig wallet and be distributed amongst artists and team members if the need for them arises. We want to look at this as a direct fund for the community to continually pour into as we build the project further.

We believe monetary support is most important when it comes to artists being able to properly create and we want to support them however we can. Every transaction will be visible on chain and we will release the public key so that donations can be made well past the initial goal being met.

Since we’ve decided to go an extra step further with our project, everyone who contributes will land a spot on the VIP list which allows for minting. We don’t believe in making contributors work too hard and we want this project to land in the hands of those who will help us continue the mission regardless of price. This is your pass into the future of web3 and what it means to build a project with true value.

We are extremely excited to bring such a beautiful vision to life and can’t wait to show the community everything that we’re working on in the coming months. Your generosity will change lives and we are more than grateful.

If you’re interested in helping build Our Story, please reach out to me on Twitter here!

Thank you for supporting us!

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