From headlines to social posts, it’s easy to think our nation is coming apart at the seams. We are divided along so many lines – not just red and blue, but urban and rural, White, Black and Brown, young and old, longtime citizen and new arrival, straight, queer and trans, college-educated or not. Yet behind the noise, a quiet American revolution is taking root. Across the country, Americans are showing up for their neighbors – whether they are alike or not.
In a small Appalachian town, LB Prevette was beaten and left in the woods as a teen because she was gay . She left her hometown for Nevada to find her people, only to realize her true community was still back in North Carolina . If everyone who is different leaves, she wondered, how will people learn to see beyond their differences