Borders are make believe. Made up. Illusions. Our country’s colonial history is a story of greed and theft, using violence to claim unjust power over places and people. Migration is natural, beautiful. Let’s not forget our species migrated as we … Continue reading Illuminating Immigration
Let’s celebrate the power of words! I am proud to be a part of the 2017 Mountain of Words Write-A-Thon fundraiser for Asheville Writers in the Schools & Community (AWITSC). For this, I’ll be writing up a storm between now and … Continue reading Mountain of Words & More
“On this year’s Dia De Los Muertos, we are remembering those killed by the Prison Industrial Complex. From jails to detention centers, police and ICE collaborations to the targeting of our people, we are lifting up the death-dealing realities in … Continue reading News and Notes
My October story for Buncombe County for the Urban News highlighted the WRES Sweet 16 Banquet Honoring Elder Hayes and Nuestro Centro‘s RAICES Summer Camp. Thanks interpretation services provided by the Cenzontle Language Justice cooperative, I had the honor of interviewing … Continue reading Nuestro Centro’s RAICES Summer Camp
My October story for Buncombe County for the Urban News looks at cultural identity as expressed by the WRES Sweet 16 Banquet Honoring Elder Hayes and the 2017 RAICES Summer Camp. I am posting the WRES text this week, and … Continue reading Celebrating WRES and Elder Hayes
Positive Possibility. I know I used that phrase last week (and many times before), and I repeat it again today as it is a mantra for me. This week I experienced Positive Possibility watching the Asheville City Council primary results … Continue reading Positive Possibility
The heaviness of things cannot be denied. A natural response is to close up and hide. And certainly making time for quiet introspection is healthy and necessary. At the same time, moving towards the light of love requires being open. … Continue reading Staying Open in October
Young black men, some not even 20 years old, are involved with shootings and kilings in Asheville at an alarming rate. The heartbreak ripples out from each incident. This is a crisis, and I continually wonder why more people in our … Continue reading When our babies use bullets
Friends, how do I deign to trouble you with my words in a world full of trouble? Trust me when I say I am sincerely here for service. I’ll trust those of you who have told me that these posts … Continue reading Breathing. Believing.
My ROOTS Week experience included daily “Undoing Oppressions” workshops. You can find me in the picture below at one of those workshops during an exercise about intersectionality. The complexities are overwhelming, and essential to face. I’m still processing the insights … Continue reading A Medley of Stories
Ami Worthen 