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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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