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by Windy Borman | Apr 7, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Media
“MARY JANES: THE WOMEN OF WEED”, an award-winning documentary about women leading the cannabis industry, premieres online April 13, 2021, in time for the annual 4/20 celebration. Grammy® Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and other “women of weed” show...
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by Windy Borman | Mar 19, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Meet the Puffragettes
Kaylene is a development finance specialist with over 25 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors in impact investing, access to finance, SME/Entrepreneurial financing, gender lens investing (GLI) and risk management. Over the course of her career, she...
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by Windy Borman | Feb 26, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Meet the Puffragettes
Jazmin Hupp was the bell of the cannabis ball when she co-founded Women Grow in 2014. Women Grow grew ‘like a weed’ to connect 75,000 women at events in 60 cities. She was named a “genius entrepreneur” by Fortune Magazine and Forbes considered her one of the “top...
by Windy Borman | Feb 17, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
Lately I’ve been reflecting on allyship. For me it is an active state, not a passive one, and it requires constant vigilance, learning, and re-learning. This month I am reading “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by...
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by Windy Borman | Sep 14, 2020 | Mary Janes Blog, Media
“Filmmaker Windy Borman shines a spotlight on the women of weed making moves to break the grass ceiling. Award-winning film director and producer Windy Borman is on a mission to empower women working in the cannabis industry. She filmed and interviewed 40 women...
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by Windy Borman | Jun 30, 2020 | Feminist Film Theory, Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
Who we see on camera and what they do informs our cultural narratives about power, privilege, rights, and worthiness. Consider the top 100 films each year in the past 13 years. How many had a Black, Latinx, Asian, or Indigenous leading character? How many had a...
