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Who Will Hold Appalshop Accountable?

Appalachian nonprofit Appalshop is silencing serious allegations of employee abuse. I’m one of the whistleblowers.

Aug 4, 2021

Photo of a dark wooden building front with a sign reading “Appalshop,” angle tilted downward to the right

Aug 4, 2021

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Appalshop, Abuse, and Reckoning: Community Responses

Selected public and private responses to Who Will Hold Appalshop…

Sep 30, 2021

Appalshop, Abuse, and Reckoning: Community Responses

Sep 30, 2021

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Art in a Patriarchy

A statement on the release of Roadside Theater’s play anthology

Mar 8, 2023

Art in a Patriarchy

Mar 8, 2023

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Think Women in Country Music Have It Bad? Try Breaking Into Broadway.

Among the 1% of corporatized arts, no “rural-urban divide” exists.

Apr 6, 2019

Think Women in Country Music Have It Bad? Try Breaking Into Broadway.

Apr 6, 2019

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The Brave Writer

Write With Your TV On

3 fun ways to turn conventional writing wisdom on its ear

Jul 3, 2020

Write With Your TV On

Jul 3, 2020

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The Startup

Is Your Creativity a Phantom Limb?

Our artists’ bodies remember what our brains forget.

Jun 25, 2020

Is Your Creativity a Phantom Limb?

Jun 25, 2020

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The Startup

Learning To Listen Better

Are we engaged in our personal and professional conversations…or faking it?

Feb 17, 2020

Learning To Listen Better

Feb 17, 2020

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Dancing in the Dark: 4 Yoko Ono Instruction Pieces

What PEA PIECE, QUESTIONNAIRE, DANCE PIECE and SWEEP PIECE tell us about the visionary “Grapefruit” author

Jan 29, 2020

Dancing in the Dark: 4 Yoko Ono Instruction Pieces

Jan 29, 2020

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Classism won’t protect women’s rights in Alabama.

We can differentiate these rants from the critical advocacy of red state community organizers and place-based cultural workers because…

May 15, 2019

Classism won’t protect women’s rights in Alabama.

May 15, 2019

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Honor Emeri Connery and Bailey Smith: Speak the Truth.

This has been a terrible week for the people of Big Stone Gap. Any death in a town as small as ours is hard. Now, as evidence of a…

Mar 15, 2019

Honor Emeri Connery and Bailey Smith: Speak the Truth.

Mar 15, 2019

Amy Brooks

Amy Brooks

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“I will not be civil to those who do not recognize my full humanity.”—Mona Eltahawy. Writer, arts producer, hillbilly nonprofit burnout. She/her.

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