Alicia Garza is joined this week by New York Times best-selling author, Chani Nicholas. Garza asks Nicholas about her recent book, nicholas.myshopify.com/products/you-were-born-for-this-astrology-for-radical-self-acceptance?variant=31110804373566">You Were Born For This: Astrology For Radical Self-Acceptance, how she began writing about astrology, and can it help with pandemic anxiety. Plus, a surprise baking tip, and Garza’s weekly roundup of all the things, also known as Lady Don’t Take No!

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Production by Phil Surkis

Theme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.