Sidekick Manifesto II: Power, Proximity, and the Practice of Humility
Sidekick Manifesto II brings together eighteen practitioners from across the Majority and Minority World. Together they return to the original Manifesto’s three preambles and ten promises. Not to polish them, but to interrogate them and decide: Keep, Reimagine, or Discard.
FROM HERO TO SIDEKICK
Blair, Bono, and Bill were spinning a narrative about the pivotal role of the West in ending poverty. So were George, Brad, and Angelina. The original Manifesto was our reaction to that moment.
LEARNING TO BE A SIDEKICK
Do we do something or nothing? Stay or go? It’s not one or the other. It’s both. Sidekicks live in the tension of acting and listening. Learning to hold that tension takes practice.
