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Alicia Garza is joined this week by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, the authors of the critically acclaimed best seller, Big Friendship, and co-hosts of the podcast, Call Your Girlfriend. Garza, Sow and Friedman discuss what it’s like maintaining friendships and maintaining sanity during a global pandemic. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all things awful and wonderful known as “Lady Don’t Take No”. Ann a Aminatou’s book: Big Friendship Ann a Aminatou’s podcast: Call Your Girlfriend Aminatou Sow on Twitter a Instagram. Ann Friedman on Twitter a Instagram. 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. 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.  DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER TO VOTE!