Women Leading Movements with #BLM founder, Alicia Garza
The Man Enough Podcast
Is Itn't About You, It's Not About Me?
LZ Granderson: It's almost easier when it's like, okay, I know you're the bat. And that can be a bigger form of betrayal. LZ: The best thing I ever learned about allyship was like, it's not about you. There's no way to deal with this stuff in the same way we are as humans. We need to stumble and get it right because we've got our babies to worry about.
As a lifelong organizer and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter the movement, Alicia Garza knows what it takes to incentivize change. Alicia gets candid about the importance of women in movements, how having a thick skin and a soft heart has helped her through seemingly impossible situations and the power of being an imperfect ally.
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Show Notes
01:12 Episode Starts
02:28 Young Girls Need Role models
04:17 Introducing Alicia Garza
16:24 Men in Movements
20:19 How Do We Transform Relationships of Power
24:27 Find Your Incentive For Change
37:33 Understanding Lived Experiences
41:58 Education and Living in Truth
54:50 There’s No Perfection in Allyship
01:04:56 What Does It Mean To Be Man Enough
01:08:23 Host Debrief
About Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza is an American Civil Rights organizer and writer best known for co-creating the international Black Lives Matter movement. Garza has become one of the most influential voices on the planet in a movement centered around the liberation of black people from authoritative systemic violence.
About Black Lives Matter / Black Lives Matter Global Network
In 2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called #BlackLivesMatter. The project is now a member-led global network of more than 40 chapters. Their members organize and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and Black Futures Lab & Black to the Future Action Fund
About Black Futures Lab
As Principal of The Black Futures Lab, Alicia works to transform Black communities into constituencies that change the way power operates—locally, statewide and nationally. The problems facing the Black communities are complex—the solutions require experimentation, innovation, and political power.
Quotes
‘My greatest strength, I have thick skin and a soft heart” - Alicia Garza
“Be courageous enough to be yourself at all times.” - Alicia Garza
“People often say that [oppressed] communities are like crabs in a bucket, but no one mentions that the bucket is not the crabs' natural habitat.”- Alicia Garza
“Thank you for being willing to be re-organized.” - Alicia Garza to Andy Grammer
"This movement can't just be mine, it has to be yours. You have to see this as tied to your liberation. And if you don't, there's no incentive for us to change.." - Alicia Garza
“Systems are people made so they can be undone by people as well.” - Alicia Garza
Guest Social Links:
ALICIA GARZA:
Instagram: @chasinggarza
Twitter: @aliciagarza
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