by Windy Borman | May 2, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
Mary Janes: The Women of Weed has always been a celebration of women and cannabis. Originally a cannabis outsider, I became intrigued by the cannabis industry when I learned women represent 37% of senior leadership in cannabis. The national average is 21%, so there...
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...
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...
by Windy Borman | Jun 12, 2020 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
Black Lives Matter. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. And too many others have lost their lives to racist federal, state, and interpersonal violence. We join all calls for justice and systemic changes, from the federal and state governments all the way down...
by Windy Borman | Jun 5, 2019 | Mary Janes Blog, Notes from the Director
The link between cannabis legalization and LGBTQIA+ rights is undeniable. Between 1981 and 1982, there were 290 reported cases of what we would eventually call Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). By 1989, there were 100,000 cases. Faced with this epidemic, and...