December 31, 2016
Anais Nin
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Lama Rod is a formally trained Buddhist teacher that quotes RuPaul.
That’s really all you need to know, but if you must know more, he’s a student at Harvard Divinity whose made liberation his life’s work, on his cushion and off.
His website: http://lamarod.com
December 20, 2016
A fierce defender of the status quo, J. Edgar Hoover hated Beatnike, the Black Panthers, and called Martin Luther King, Jr. “the most dangerous Negro in the future of this nation.”
Through the use of his COINTELPRO program, Hoover was able to infiltrate various progressive organizations and tear them apart from the inside. His legacy set the stage for the civil liberties violations currently being perpetrated by various US governmental and quasi-governmental agencies.
More info:
Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/topics/cointelpro
FBI: https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
December 20, 2016
James Baldwin once said, that “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
Throughout his lifetime, he penned both fiction and non-fiction that explored issues of race and sexuality. He gave very candid interviews on race that have fueled dialogue and freedom fighters for decades.
Learn more:
Esquire: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a23960/james-baldwin-cool-it/
Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24456864?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents/
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As a black second-generation American, lesbian and poet, Audre Lorde stood at the intersection of all that was invisible and marginalized in her day.
Through her work, she gave voice to revolutionary ideas about art, love, race, sexuality and gender, among many other things.
Learn more:
Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/audre-lorde
University of Illinois: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/life.htm
Sister Outsider on Amazon
December 10, 2016
Source of the Instagram post:
The Nation: No Place for Pity, No Place for Fear: No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: https://www.thenation.com/article/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/
December 9, 2016
Radical Dharma on Amazon
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During his lifetime, Max Eastman was a Socialist who eventually broke with socialism in favor of free markets. He held many opinions which could not be pinned down to one side or the other and was involved in a number of cultural movements and publications during his lifetime.
More info
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/p_eastman.html
November 15, 2016
Another lesser-known opinions of Thomas Jefferson:
Jefferson believed the Constitution should be rewritten every 19 years to ensure the current generation wasn’t the living consequence of the prior one: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.html
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Context to better understand:
Why people are afraid Donald Trump will be a tyrant:https://www.facebook.com/RBReich
What a Trump presidency means for minorities: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/update-incidents-hateful-harassment-election-day-now-number-701
Mike Pence’s extremism against women, the LGBTQ+ community and the poor: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/mike-pence-isnt-boring-hes-one-americas-most-extreme-governors
December 14, 2016
Many people think the protests against Trump are juvenile, when in fact,
Obama has endured “not my president” for years: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/9/18/1133388/-Republican-Meltdown-Hes-Not-My-President-Edition
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“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” by Audre Lorde
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Mike Pence was willing to hold up Indiana’s entire budget in order to defund Planned Parenthood.
Pence’s actions concerning public health as Indiana’s governor contributed to a preventable HIV outbreak.
November 12, 2016
Kombucha benefits with recipe: http://wellnessmama.com/23994/kombucha-benefits/
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Osho: Jealousy- Society’s Device to Divide and Rule
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Chris Fix on YouTube is a great resource for DIY car maintenance
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More on laziness from Pema Chodron at Lion’s Roar: http://www.lionsroar.com/start-where-you-arelooking-into-laziness/
The Places that Scare you on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Places-that-Scare-You-Fearlessness/dp/1570629218
November 2, 2016
Angel Kyodo Williams
Buddhist Geeks Podcast:
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/buddhist-geeks-podcast
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-race-love-liberation/id211752923?i=1000370934521&mt=2
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/buddhistgeeks/talking-race-love-and?in=buddhistgeeks/sets/ethics
October 30, 2016
Octavia Butler
Seed to Harvest: https://www.amazon.com/Seed-Harvest-Octavia-E-Butler/dp/0446698903/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1482699635&sr=8-3&keywords=patternist
Wild Seed: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Seed-Patternist-Book-1-ebook/dp/B008HALNFQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482699635&sr=8-1&keywords=patternist
October 21, 2016
Some places online to do book swaps:
http://bookmooch.com
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php
*I haven’t tried either of these.
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Esther Perel
Mating in Captivity: Amazon | Audible
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Maureen Murdock
More on Maureen’s site
The book on Amazon
October 11, 2016
My National Coming Out Day post
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Pema Chodron on Heightened Neurosis
The Places That Scare You on Amazon
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People’s National Movement
History, in their own words
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