Tokin Woman

Celebrating famous female cannabis connoisseurs throughout herstory to the present day. All contents copyrighted. "Bright Leaf" artwork by Jean Hanamoto, camomoto at Spoonflower.com

Monday, April 17, 2017

Four and Twenty Tokin' Women for 4/20

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In honor of the upcoming' holiday 4/20—and for all of those blackbirds who got "baked" in a pie—here are four and twenty new...

Monday, April 10, 2017

Joanne Kyger Wakes Up From The Dream

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Poet Joanne Kyger, who according to her New York Times obituary , was "one of the few women embraced by the Beat Generation writers’ ...

Saturday, April 1, 2017

What "The Dressmaker" Made in the Kitchen

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Tillie (Kate Winslet) shares her "special" cakes with a neighbor in "The Dressmaker." I was so engrossed with the ta...

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Else Lasker-Schüler: Orientalist Poet

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Lasker-Schüler in 1875 Once called “a bohemian princess who lived in the belief that she was the prince of Thebes [Egypt],” the German-J...

Friday, March 24, 2017

Janis Ian and the Summer of Love

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"I was born into the crack that split America." So begins Society's Child , the autobiography of singer/songwriter Janis I...

Friday, February 24, 2017

Maha Shivaratri and Parvati

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A poster advertising an Indian smoke shop depicting Shiva and Parvati, circa 1992. My friend Jeannie Herer reminds me that this is ...

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Opiate of the Masses Now Officially Opiates (and Booze)

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UPDATE: Maher's second show had Eva Longoria bringing up voter suppression, and Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan chiming in that 2 million vot...

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Tokin Woman: Tokin Woman is the work of Ellen Komp (aka Nola Evangelista), an activist and author who happens to be a woman. She is the author of "Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory."

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