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From Radical Dharma to All About Love, a Look at Queer Black Buddhist Perspectives on Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Texts

By Chintan Girish Modi — 2020

Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.

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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

Serena Williams

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“I Am a Woman and I Am Fast”: What Caster Semenya’s Story Says about Gender and Race in Sports

The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.

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The Person Is Political

LGBTQ legal strategy has long focused on equal protection. But if identity itself can be political speech, the First Amendment could be our future.

Scott Skinner-Thompson

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Gloria Steinem: Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy

Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work

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Gloria Steinem on International Women’s Day: ‘We Just Need to Keep Going’

The fact that we have an International Women’s Day means we are still in trouble. There is no International Men’s Day. Only less powerful people or forgotten historical events need “A Day” to be part of the present. Yet it’s an important step because any notice is better than no notice.

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‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

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Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist

Billie Jean King isn’t interested in being a legend—she’s interested in succession.

Caitlin Thompson

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Finding Our Way in Post-Trump America

Historians, theologians, artists, and activists reflect on where we go from here.

Jacqui Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Paul Ortiz, Leana Wen, Megan Rohrer, Ben Lowe, Wajahat Ali, Jenny Yang, Valarie Kaur, Otis Moss III

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Meet a Teacher: Larry Yang

Meditation teacher Larry Yang recently told his personal story and answered Lion’s Roar‘s “Meet a Teacher” questionnaire; they follow here so that you can get to know him better.

Lion’s Roar Staff

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