Alicia Garza is joined this week by Sonya Passi, the founder and CEO of FreeFrom, a national organization on a 

mission to create pathways to financial security and long-term safety with and for survivors of gender-based violence. Garza and Passi discuss diffusers, beach life, and the meaning behind “healing justice is economic justice”. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all that is awful and excellent, known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.

Sonya Passi on Twitter.

FreeFrom’s Survivors Knows Best Report

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Production by Phil Surkis

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

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.