In-Person and Online: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
New York Insight Meditation Center 115 West 29th Street, 12th floor, New Yorkwith Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad
Friday, September 6th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Saturday, September 7th, 2024 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET
In this two-part retreat, we will approach Black, queer writers James Baldwin and Audre Lorde as ancestors who offered an embodied dharma of resilience, fortitude, presence, and joy in a racist, patriarchal, homophobic context. We will discuss the Buddhist doctrine of suffering, and in so doing, we will practice the importance of honoring anger, deconstructing the delusion of white supremacy, and the necessity of attending to race, gender, and sexuality in Buddhist contexts.