Beyond the Temple-Finding the Inner Guru
Tahlia Newland of Beyond the Temple blog and Living in Peace and Clarity vlog relates how she came to realize that all she needed for her spiritual life was already … Continue reading →
Richard Blanco-How to Love a Country
Queer Theory Collective-an LGBTIQ readers & writers group at Root & Press Café QTC Review: Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country (March 2019; Beacon Press) by Shaun Bartone How … Continue reading →
Drukpa Nuns: Kung Fu and Women’s Rights
Kung Fu Nuns in Nepal boost their health in the fight for women’s rights By Sandee LaMotte, CNN. Fri December 20, 2019 “I learned I can do anything a man can … Continue reading →
Morgan West: 12 Lessons on Power
Twelve Lessons on Power December 18, 2019 By Morgan West Originally published at Epilogue. Morgan West has written a political history of the Millennial generation in a dozen paragraphs, creating … Continue reading →
Ambedkar: Educate, Agitate, Organize!
The following is from an email exchange with an Engage! reader. [Engage! Reader]: “I resonate with what you have written and like the mission of the Ambedkar society. I curious … Continue reading →
Failure in Madrid-What Have We Learned?
The 25th UN Climate Conference in Madrid has, according to reports, come to a complete standstill. This is the conference in which nations were supposed to up-the-ante and commit to … Continue reading →
Ana Roxanne: Boundless Space
I was listening to this music by singer/composer Ana Roxanne, a Southeast Asian Intersex artist working in Los Angeles… … and I started to imagine that ‘Buddhism’ was this vast … Continue reading →
Transgender Ambedkar Buddhists
My last post ended with the question, “Can we find a way for Third Gender people in India to feel welcome in Ambedkar Buddhism? Is it possible for Hijra and … Continue reading →
Queer Ambedkar Buddhism: the Mother Lode
Seek and ye shall find…and I found the Mother Lode on queer liberation and Ambedkar Buddhism. I found it in a film called Papilio Buddha, directed by Jayan Cherian (2013). … Continue reading →
Queer Dalits and Ambedkar Buddhism
I’ve been trying to locate where Ambedkar Buddhism is on the subject of queer and trans liberation. It’s been a hunt for clues on the fringes of the ‘net. From … Continue reading →
