Ami Worthen
@amiwhoa.bsky.social
writer, collaborator, memory worker….✨ dedicated to collective liberation. 💫
An homage to Andrea Clarke, with the opportunity to donate to Slay the Mic in her honor: amiworthen.com/2025/11/14/h...
Homage to Andrea Clarke
Count me among the many grieving Andrea Elizabeth Clarke, who died on October 29, 2025 at the age of 80. She was a singular force, creative and hilarious, generous and mischievous. Her talents were…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
An homage to Andrea Clarke, with the opportunity to donate to Slay the Mic in her honor: amiworthen.com/2025/11/14/h...
Congrats! It's excellent!
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
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This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Congrats! It's excellent!
Wrote about a beautiful community event and the power of solidarity and loving out loud: amiworthen.com/2025/05/28/l...
Loving out loud
Brood XIV of cicadas are now among us, a miraculous 17-year occurrence, a kind of time capsule from 2008. That was the year Krekel and I released our album “Found A Reason” and were featured on the…
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May 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Wrote about a beautiful community event and the power of solidarity and loving out loud: amiworthen.com/2025/05/28/l...
On it
WELCOME GEMINI SEASON! QUESTION EVERYTHING! FLUSTER! FLIRT! FLIT ABOUT! PLAY BOTH SIDES! REFUSE TO DECIDE! THIS IS YOUR YEAR TO CREATE CUTE CHAOS! THE WORLD IS A CIRCUS! BE THE CLOWN WE NEED NOW! DISRUPT THE DICTATORS! DISTURB THE PEACE OF THOSE WHO PROFIT OFF OUR DEMISE! LIFE IS SHORT! HAVE FUN!
May 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
On it
A beautiful offering…
Grief & Solidarity Days is an invitation to join in decentralized grief gatherings to sit in backyard circles, gather in libraries and living rooms, hold vigil in public parks, and allow our sorrows to connect us.
we were never meant to carry it alone. Link in comments to learn more
we were never meant to carry it alone. Link in comments to learn more
May 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A beautiful offering…
grateful for gardening
April 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
grateful for gardening
Yes! Then give them money to start their own businesses.
Cannabis is now a $22.5 billion industry.
More than 40,000 people are currently imprisoned for possessing marijuana.
If you want to celebrate 4/20 push your local politicians to free everyone from prison who has ever been convicted of a marijuana charge and clear their records
More than 40,000 people are currently imprisoned for possessing marijuana.
If you want to celebrate 4/20 push your local politicians to free everyone from prison who has ever been convicted of a marijuana charge and clear their records
a man wearing a black jersey with the number 20 on the back is standing in front of a white background .
ALT: a man wearing a black jersey with the number 20 on the back is standing in front of a white background .
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April 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yes! Then give them money to start their own businesses.
Here’s a medical GoFundMe for a dear friend, please chip in if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/a-huge-une...
Donate to A Huge, Unexpected Medical Bill Shouldn't be Faced Alone, organized by Gabriela Mendez
La traducción al español está a continuación.
Spanish transl… Gabriela Mendez needs your support for A Huge, Unexpected Medical Bill Shouldn't be Faced Alone
www.gofundme.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here’s a medical GoFundMe for a dear friend, please chip in if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/a-huge-une...
My April offering: amiworthen.com/2025/04/14/l...
Love and Las Américas
South America and North America (and Central America). The Americas. Las Américas. Abya Yala. The latter being the name used by various Indigenous communities and nations, to assert that “land and …
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April 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My April offering: amiworthen.com/2025/04/14/l...
Love to trans kin being their fullest and truest selves. We all benefit from your honest embodiment #transdayofvisibility
March 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Love to trans kin being their fullest and truest selves. We all benefit from your honest embodiment #transdayofvisibility
Love the New Economy Coalition!
Hey BlueSky 🦋 We're The New Economy Coalition 🌻 We're a network of 150+ organizations building #SolidarityEconomy around the U.S. We're all about powering change that puts people & planet before profit 💸
Check out how we do it www.neweconomy.net
#AnotherWorldIsPossible
Check out how we do it www.neweconomy.net
#AnotherWorldIsPossible
Home - New Economy Coalition
We’re a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.
www.neweconomy.net
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Love the New Economy Coalition!
New post about the movement to Save UNCA Woods and opposition to trickle down housing: amiworthen.com/2025/03/25/w...
What if we could
At the sight of the destruction, I audibly gasped, cried out NO!, and fell to my knees in the dirt, sobbing. I was knocked down by overwhelming shock and grief. The UNCA woods, a sacred site in my …
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March 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New post about the movement to Save UNCA Woods and opposition to trickle down housing: amiworthen.com/2025/03/25/w...
This month's musings, "Resist | Rock | Remember," shared with love: amiworthen.com/2025/03/03/r...
Resist | Rock | Remember
The beat of resistance throbs through my being. The rhythm of refusal. “Do not obey in advance,” Timothy Synder advises in his book On Tyranny. ¡Viva la resistencia! Our power is real. The ov…
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March 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This month's musings, "Resist | Rock | Remember," shared with love: amiworthen.com/2025/03/03/r...
Lighting a candle in memory of Roberta Flack, thank you for sharing your gifts with the world, you will be missed. We can have local pride that she was born in Black Mountain. #wnc #robertaflack
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Lighting a candle in memory of Roberta Flack, thank you for sharing your gifts with the world, you will be missed. We can have local pride that she was born in Black Mountain. #wnc #robertaflack
grateful for each moment
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
grateful for each moment
You can support this sweet @tepeyacsanctuary.bsky.social WNC immigrant rights mutual aid fundraising campaign by getting a tshirt or sweatshirt here: www.bonfire.com/store/tepeya...
Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary | Official Merchandise | Bonfire
Committed to creating and resourcing spaces where we can create sanctuary with each other
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February 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You can support this sweet @tepeyacsanctuary.bsky.social WNC immigrant rights mutual aid fundraising campaign by getting a tshirt or sweatshirt here: www.bonfire.com/store/tepeya...
Just published a new essay, Heartbreaks and hope: amiworthen.com/2025/02/09/h...
Heartbreaks and hope
Being near water is one of my favorite things, be it a creek or a river or lake, or, less frequently, the ocean. I’m partial to waterways in the Appalachian mountains, I’ll take a mountain stream o…
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February 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just published a new essay, Heartbreaks and hope: amiworthen.com/2025/02/09/h...
Sometimes a book is so incredible I literally applaud when I finish. “Survival is a Promise” by @alexispauline.bsky.social was such a book. Bravo and thank you. 💖
January 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Sometimes a book is so incredible I literally applaud when I finish. “Survival is a Promise” by @alexispauline.bsky.social was such a book. Bravo and thank you. 💖
Reposted by Ami Worthen
We are touring with our Children’s Liberation Lbrary and a team of artists, therapists, and organizers.
We read storybooks and learn resilience skills. Parents talked with therapists. Kids made library cards and got to take a book home. We gifted them a full liberation library. It was beautiful.
We read storybooks and learn resilience skills. Parents talked with therapists. Kids made library cards and got to take a book home. We gifted them a full liberation library. It was beautiful.
January 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are touring with our Children’s Liberation Lbrary and a team of artists, therapists, and organizers.
We read storybooks and learn resilience skills. Parents talked with therapists. Kids made library cards and got to take a book home. We gifted them a full liberation library. It was beautiful.
We read storybooks and learn resilience skills. Parents talked with therapists. Kids made library cards and got to take a book home. We gifted them a full liberation library. It was beautiful.
Reposted by Ami Worthen
Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵