Ross's story was very inspiring and full of hope, more so because it was at times so heartbreaking. Throughout her life she has been the victim of rape, incest, teen pregnancy, forced sterilization; an essential voice in the reproductive justice movement; a call-out thrill seeker, a person who struggled with drug abuse and committed embezzlement; a deprogrammer of Nazis and rapists. It's one thing for theorists to talk about community, abolition, and restorative justice; it's another for someone to be both the victim of abuse and the perpetrator of harm and share their lived experience on forgiveness and redemption in a widely applicable way. I really appreciated that Ross not only shared when she had been wronged, but also when she had misjudged allies or even stolen from others in response to her own suffering or anger. The theme throughout is to lead with love because movement requires all hands on deck. Too often in organizing spaces we see the narcissism of minor differences resulting in wide-spread call out culture and alienation of offenders - then every organizer is bemoaning the lack of community buy-in and volunteers. Fostering a call-in culture might be the first step to rebuilding the traction we seem to have lost in recent years.