I thought a lot about how I wanted to use my voice during the US election. I have very strong opinions on who should be president, but I don’t believe my opinions will influence anyone who is on the fence, and I don’t believe saying my opinions out loud will lead to more unity. So I voted (from across the world!) and wrote a post focused on our urgent need to work together instead. (It will come out during the election cycle next week in hopes that no matter the results we can show up productively for our next steps).

As a writer, it would be very easy for me to just write about my opinions all the time, but it’s also my responsibility to think about the effects those opinions will have. I think it’s more important to have productive conversations between people of varying political parties than it is to perpetuate the “us and them” groups we have divided ourselves into. Division is the thing we need to end most of all and a central cause of the problems we’re facing, and that’s why my vote is for unity between us, now more than ever.