Help the Asheville Blade survive in 2024

This year the Asheville Blade - a local journalism cooperative of working class trans and non-binary folks - has faced serious hardship, including two of our reporters going on trial for doing their jobs.

We've continued to do good work on a tight budget, but this and other challenges have put our co-op under some serious strain. So we're raising funds to survive in 2024.

Anything raised will go to support our work - and expand our ability to better cover our city. We have no ads or corporate backers; just community support.

Despite the persecution, we brought our city and the world the realities of communities facing the brunt of gentrification.

We've shined a light on city hall, the corruption behind the decaying water system, modern-day redlining, the ongoing pandemic and crackdowns on mutual aid and the poor.

We provided an on-the-ground look at protest against genocide, published a ground-breaking guide to fighting transmisogyny and dived deep into city hall funding an anti-LGBTQ hate group.

We delved into the trial of mutual aid volunteers and unearthed documents proving police retaliation.

We did an in-depth investigation of over 12 hours of body camera footage from the infamous Christmas 2021 crackdown that saw our journalists and other locals hauled off to jail.

We've done all this while defending press freedoms in court and facing the challenges of surviving in this city. We need your support to keep doing it.