GATHER. WRITE. SHARE.
A movement of writing communities that connects the disconnected, builds cultural and social bridges, gives voice, and leads to true friendship.
Divided.
Social media polarization.
False connections.
Social isolation.
Division-amplifying algorithms.
Public trust fragmented.
Crumbling social institutions.
Us versus them.
Alone.
Our increased national polarization, division-amplifying algorithms, and media siloes have created a sense of Perpetual Division.
Not only do we think and believe differently from others, we’re incentivized to suspect that can’t even trust or be in community with them.
There’s a better way.
In Speak Up community writing workshops, people come together across so-called impassable chasms—homeless versus non-homeless, this race versus that race, left versus right—and do the deeply human work of creating, writing, sharing together.
