These are the final lines in June Jordan's "Poem about My Rights" My simple and daily and nightly self-determination Garza has a tattoo emblazoned on her chest that reads:Īnd I can't tell you who the hell set things up like thisīut I can tell you that from now on my resistance In September 2021, Garza announced that the two had ended their relationship after 17 years. In 2008, she married Malachi and took the name Garza, settling in Oakland. In 2004, Alicia came out as queer to her family. Garza says in the 2016 YBCA 100 Summit, “a twenty minute interview turned into a four hour conversation, I remember leaving there and saying 'I met my soulmate’”. When she showed up to her interview, her interviewer (Malachi) was forty minutes late.
Through that same network a few weeks later, Garza received an email about the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL).
Personal Malachi Garza ĭuring a blockage at Bay Bridge in 2003, Garza saw Malachi in a crowd, doing a role of security. She graduated in 2002 with a degree in anthropology and sociology. In her final year at college, she helped organize the first Women of Color Conference, a university-wide convocation held at UCSD in 2002. Enrolling in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), she continued her activism by working at the student health center and joining the student association calling for higher pay for the university's janitors. When she was 12 years old, Alicia engaged in activism, promoting school sex education about birth control.
The family lived first in San Rafael and then Tiburon, and ran an antiques business, assisted later by her brother Joey, eight years her junior. After that she lived with her mother and her Jewish stepfather, and she grew up as Alicia Schwartz in a mixed-raced and mixed-religion household. Her first four years were spent in San Rafael, living with her African-American mother and her mother's twin brother. Garza was born to a single mother in Oakland California, on January 4, 1981. She currently directs Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and is the Principal at the Black Futures Lab. Her editorial writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Truthout. She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people of color. Alicia Garza (born January 4, 1981) is an American civil rights activist and writer known for co-founding the international Black Lives Matter movement.
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