Tommy Rosen generously shared this video interview with Nikki Meyers from last year’s Recovery 2.0 conference. Nikki Meyers is the founder of Y12SR, Yoga for Recovery. In this video, she talks about the one issue that is perhaps the hardest to understand and grapple with: co-dependency. For many of us, it is the core of our… Read More Nikki Myers: Requiem for Co-Dependency

This year’s conference features three of my favourite speakers: Vimalasara Mason John, author of 8 Steps to Recovery; Noah Levine, author of Refuge Recovery, and Nikki Meyers, founder of Y12R, Yoga 12-Step Recovery. The conference is free and registration is simple. When I send out a newsletter each week, the main goal is to provide … Read More Recovery 2.0 Conference Feb. 17 – 21

From Black Lives Matter, activists for India’s discriminated Dalits learn tactics to press for dignity This story is a part of a series November 08, 2015 · 9:30 AM EST November 12, 2015 · 11:30 AM EST By Sonia Paul (follow)  Members of the All Dalit Women’s Rights Forum speak at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. Credit: Sonia… Read More Dalit Activists Connect with Black Lives Matter

[Editor: I’m deeply sorry for Rohit’s suicide and the reasons for it, personal and political. But there is also something deeply poignant about his letter. He is talking about the alienation of humans from a human life of dignity, of love, connection and meaning.] Good morning, I would not be around when you read this letter. Don’t… Read More Rohith Chakravarthi Vemula’s Last Words to the World

Behind Rohit Vemula’s suicide: how Hyderabad Central University showed him the door At a protest over the suicide of Rohith Vemula, outside the HRD Ministry in New Delhi, Monday. (express Photo by: Tashi Tobgyal) On January 30, Rohith Chakravarthi Vemula would have turned 27. Yesterday, the Dalit research scholar, suspended from Hyderabad Central University over a… Read More Suicide of Dalit Student Stirs Hyderabad

Hey folks, this is my interview with Matthew O’Connel and the Imperfect Buddha Podcast. In this podcast, I discuss engaged buddhism, racism in the sangha, climate justice, and myself as a transgender Buddhist. This is not the complete podcast, which will probably include the hosts reflectsions, and will be uploaded in a week or two.… Read More Interview with Matthew O’Connell for the Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Violence against transgender women in Brazil remains high in 2016  WRITTEN BY KERRY CARDOZA POSTED: 01/28/2016, 11:40AM Brazil launched a campaign to support its transgender population Wednesday, an issue that desperately needs attention after reports that 48 transgender women have been murdered in the country so far this year. The campaign, developed by the Ministry… Read More Life Expectancy for Trans Women in Brazil is 30