Dawn Haney: Refuge in the Unknown Join BPF in a live video conference: Refuge and Resistance: Live Videoconference REFUGE & RESISTANCE Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 5:30–7pm PDT // 8:30–10pm EDT Join by Video (Preferred): https://zoom.us/j/646978571. Choose “join audio by computer.” Or by Phone: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll); int’l numbers here. Meeting ID: 646 978 571… Read More BPF: Refuge and Resistance
By Helen Tworkov, Originally published in Tricycle, Fall 1992 bell hooks bell hooks is a seeker, a feminist, a social critic, and a prolific writer. Her books include“Ain’t I a Woman?”: Black Women and Feminism; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (with Cornel West); and, most recently Black Looks all from Southend Press. She was born Gloria… Read More Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks
I have been working on a theory that the Buddhist “story” of dependent origination (not the doctrine, the story), is a cultural narrative about evolution. Pratityasamutpada-as-evolution has a philosophical tradition in India that predates Buddhism: Samkhya philosophy. The History of Philosophy without any gaps series (Kings College London) teaches Indian philosophy. It has a section on Samkhya… Read More The Evolution of Evolution Part III
by David McCleod, originally posted at Integral Permaculture. The former pastor, Rev. Michael Dowd, is best known as the author of the best-selling book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. Dowd is a religious naturalist (“Religious naturalism (RN) combines a naturalist worldview with perceptions… Read More Michael Dowd: Standing for the Future
Lyla June, of Diné and European heritage, is an Indigenous water protector active in the struggle at Standing Rock. Her spoken word/musical recording, “All Nations Rise“, has received almost 2 million views since posted on Facebook last fall. In the post that accompanies the video on FB, Lyla writes: “I want to acknowledge that some… Read More All Nations Rise
Originally published on Instagram, natgeo This is Trina. She is a transwoman living in Jamaica, one of the most dangerous countries of the world for Trans and gender non-confirming individuals. Sanctioned prejudice against people such as Trina creates a society of violence. They are at extreme risk for assault and suicide. Trina has been shot, stabbed,… Read More Trans In a Dangerous World
Editor: Why are conservatives so against us? Because we trans people are the future of the human species, where there is no sex or gender, and no race, only individual differences. We are cyborg, that’s why they’re terrified of us. I’d love to write a Buddhist cyborg sci-fi novel. Texas and Virginia join other states… Read More Anti-Trans Bill Across US Exceed N. Carolina
