The Unreliability of Identity, and the Undeniability of its Impact: A NYI Pride Event
with Leslie Booker and René Rivera
Monday, June 28th, 2021 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
**All friends and allies are invited to join the Insight OUT Refuge for this evening.**
Our identities, particularly our marginal identities, shape our lived experiences in tangible ways everyday; and at the same time, where do we locate these identities in our direct and constantly changing experience?
New York Insight and East Bay Meditation Center come together for a pride month online dharma dialog exploring the paradox of identity through a queer eye on the Buddha’s teachings on the five aggregates.
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Teacher(s)
Leslie Booker
Booker is a heart – centered, spirit – driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co – authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma – informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.
Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.
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René Rivera
René Rivera (he, him) is a leader and bridge-builder, working and learning in all the spaces in-between race, gender, and other perceived binaries, as a queer, mixed-race, trans man. He teaches heart-centered, trauma-informed meditation and mindfulness practices at East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) and elsewhere. His path to spiritual leadership has included the Commit to Dharma and Practice in Action programs at EBMC and the Community Dharma Leaders program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He works with the Ahimsa Collective as a restorative justice facilitator.