Join us on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:00 PM for Dharma and Justice: Investigating Caste and Racial Oppression through a Buddhist Lens, featuring Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Rima Vesely-Flad.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (North Atlantic Books, 2022) and co-founder of the grassroots organization Equality Labs, investigates how caste oppression functions in India and within the Indian diaspora residing in the United States. Rima Vesely-Flad, author of Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation (New York University Press, 2022), explores distinctive interpretations and practices of Black Buddhist teachers. In this virtual conversation, they will discuss Buddhism, intergenerational trauma, how the experiences of caste and racial oppression mirror one another, and their indebtedness to the Black Feminist and abolitionist traditions.
ASL interpretation will be provided.