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Alicia Garza welcomes point guard for the New York Liberty, Layshia Clarendon. Garza asks Clarendon about the WNBA’s movement work, trans visibility in sports, and her newfound “gender euphoria”.  Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of everything good and awful. Layshia Clarendon on Twitter, Instagram a Facebook Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram a Facebook Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram a 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 a Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.