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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 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.