Today I add my voice to the chorus of people singing the true story of old-time and bluegrass music. It is a marvelously multicultural story, wrought with pain and possibility. We call for the repair of false and incomplete narratives … Continue reading Repairing narratives: old-time and bluegrass music
There are many Ashevilles. As I write this on Sunday morning, so far this weekend I have experienced beauty and power at Southside Rising’s Black Nativity: Liberation Holiday and Nuestro Centro‘s annual Posada. This afternoon I’ll attend the 2nd Annual My Sistah … Continue reading Many Ashevilles
Cars are not our future. Or they are our future, if we want to continue to be out of synch with the earth and to plunge deeper into environmental devastation. The NCDOT’s proposed plans for the I-26 Connector through Asheville … Continue reading Resist I-26
Asheville has long been known as a cultural and creative hot spot, or “vortex,” as you will. This is certainly an aspect of our city I celebrate. I am currently half way through writing four articles for the Mountain Xpress … Continue reading Culture Cultivators
Discouragement and despair wash up on the shores of my psyche daily. The dissonant banging of construction outside my window shakes my concentration and my confidence in the possibility of positive change. Tuning into the news crumbles my courage. Optimism … Continue reading Fortify the Fortifying
Please Sponsor Me! I am participating in the 5th annual Mountain of Words Write-A-thon to support the work of Asheville Writers in the Schools & Community. My personal goal is to raise $250 and I am hoping that you will help … Continue reading Write-a-Thon to Support Other Writers
The gender binary and heteronormativity crush our imagination and our possibilities. They force us into unnecessary boxes of expectations. Their limitations keep us from liberation. We must build beyond them. Throughout history, humanity has been enriched by transgender, nonbinary, intersex, … Continue reading the bind of the binary
As my current projects crescendo, I just have a moment to share a few items of interest: DIYabled Benefit This Wednesday, October 10, at 8 pm my band Krekel & Whoa will be performing for the DIYabled Benefit at Fleetwood’s, … Continue reading DIYabled + other Community Goodness
Love. Let’s lead with love. I love you, in all of your tenderness and complexity and vulnerability, strength and pain. Feel that love. Words are inadequate. Yet words are what I have. Transformation feels slow. We move through cycles, change … Continue reading Breathe, Believe
“What does it take to rebuild community as a beautifully defiant act of resistance and a necessary tool in our collective survival?” Marisol Jiménez offered a beautiful, powerful, poetic testimony in response to that question at a recent CreativeMornings event. I … Continue reading “The foundation of activism…is love.”
Ami Worthen 