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Action, Arts, History

The Future is Now

May 31, 2021July 27, 2021 Ami W

As we build towards the future we want, we witness it manifesting around us right now. Here are a few local things I am celebrating at the moment: Different Wrld On the day before the Vance Monument starting coming down … Continue reading The Future is Now

Action, History

Reading for revelations

March 14, 2021March 15, 2021 Ami W

Here are four essays/articles I have read or re-read recently which I hope will spark revelations – and revolution. Onward. Reading for revelations White Danger: Double-Mindedness, Violence, and the Confusion of Whiteness by Autumn Brown for AORTA. The critical, uncomfortable … Continue reading Reading for revelations

Action, History

The road to repair

March 23, 2020April 10, 2020 Ami W

Note: this piece was started before the pandemic was declared. For more depth on this moment, click here for details on the upcoming Coping with Corona Collective webinars. Very near my house, newly built “luxury” apartments will be opening soon, … Continue reading The road to repair

Action, Arts, History

Taking on the TDA

October 6, 2019April 19, 2021 Ami W

The Asheville Blade has published my first piece for them, which is a bold call to action: Abolish the TDA. Written with input from editor extraordinaire David Forbes and Blade writer Matilda Bliss, it makes a case for dismantling a … Continue reading Taking on the TDA

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Rectify resources

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 Ami W

If you are reading this, you have resources. Your resources may include a home, a car, a computer, money to pay for non-essential items or experiences, influence at your job or place of worship, etc, etc. In addition, you may … Continue reading Rectify resources

Arts, History, Music4 Comments

Reckoning with cultural extraction

March 11, 2019August 21, 2019 Ami W

Our economy was built on the genocide of Indigenous people and the violent extraction of labor from enslaved Africans. This cruelty was justified by white people’s created illusion that those we killed, stole from, and enslaved were inferior and that … Continue reading Reckoning with cultural extraction

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Repairing narratives: old-time and bluegrass music

January 16, 2019December 18, 2019 Ami W

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

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Breathe, Believe

October 1, 2018 Ami W

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

Action, Arts, History

“The foundation of activism…is love.”

September 10, 2018 Ami W

“What does it take to rebuild community as a beautifully defiant act of resistance and a necessary tool in our collective survival?” Marisol JimĂ©nez 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.”

Action, History

WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon

August 28, 2018August 29, 2018 Ami W

As a person who cares about the collective narrative, the first WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon, which will be held this Saturday, is an event that I think is super important. It’s being presented by the Baird Family Reunion, the oldest black … Continue reading WNC Wikipedia Record-and-Edit-a-Thon

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