I Am AveMagnolia invites women and nonbinary people, particularly Black, Indigenous, Latina, and other BIPOC women and BIPOC nonbinary participants, into a collaborative embodied inquiry process exploring memory, grief, embodiment, desire, liberation, collective witnessing, and artistic co-authorship.

This is not audience testing or passive participation. The project is being co-developed through collective response, movement, dialogue, sound, visual language, storytelling, and embodied inquiry. Participants engage with evolving elements of the work and become part of the artistic, emotional, and political development of the project itself.

Virtual collaborations are currently open for women and nonbinary participants interested in responding artistically to the work through movement, music, visual art, film, writing, multilingual adaptation, interdisciplinary practice, or embodied response. Western North Carolina collaborators interested in future live performance, staging, music, technical theater, installation, production development, or funding support are also invited to connect.

The project recognizes that bodies experience violence, survival, race, gender, desire, labor, silence, visibility, and freedom differently across histories and systems. Those differences are not obstacles to the work. They are essential to its collective inquiry.

No formal artistic background is required. Artists and non-artists are welcome. The invitation is for people whose bodies, stories, questions, and creative responses feel called into dialogue with the work.

The project recognizes that bodies experience violence, survival, race, gender, desire, labor, silence, visibility, and freedom differently across histories and systems. Those differences are not obstacles to the work. They are essential to its collective inquiry.

The goal is not consensus, flattening, or symbolic performance of inclusion. The goal is to create spaces where women, nonbinary people, and historically marginalized bodies pushed toward silence, fragmentation, erasure, endurance, or disappearance are allowed movement, contradiction, imagination, grief, pleasure, political truth, refusal, and collective authorship.