This is great, and I think for a lot of people throwing shade about what happened in Paris and the way people responded after Paris should take the time to read this.

There is a lot of learning here but what stands out for me are the lessons about humility and trust. We need to hold each other accountable; but accountability works on trust. Trusting each other does not mean not questioning and challenging each other. In fact it means the opposite, only when we trust one another can we be open enough to learn from each other, to be open and vulnerability and to grow. Far too often in this movement the reflex is to call-out others for perceived failures, more as a performance than as constructive accountability. We question motives, we make assumptions about intentions so that a strategic disagreement becomes an argument over when they are even on the same side. This is what happens when we don’t trust each other and act with humility. We tear each other down instead of building the movement up.

I was not in Paris, and I am sure there are things that I would have done differently if I was. But I made the decision to trust the people who were there to be doing the best they could in that moment, to be true to their principles, act strategically, and remain accountable in an unimaginable difficult context.

Basically we need to stop being assholes. Stop being an asshole. I promise I’ll try too.