Outrage-amplifying algorithms, media siloes, and crumbling social institutions have created a sense of Perpetual Division.
Online polarization. False connections. Social isolation. A haunting sense that we’re careening away from one another and it will only get worse.
We see something different.
In Speak Up writing communities, 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.