ONLINE EVENT – The Dharma of Racial Justice
November 6, 2023 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern
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The second event of a 3–part series hosted by The Arrow Journal and Drala Mountain Center which explores applying contemplative wisdom to social, political, and environmental challenges.
Addressing systemic suffering is inseparable from the path of dharma. Four authors and editors have curated invaluable lessons across four issues and many articles in The Arrow on the dharma of racial justice, from embodiment to scholarship, from survival to dreaming. As one of these editors observed, these stories need to be told. Join Naya Jones, Arisika Razak, and Rima Vesely-Flad for a conversation with The Arrow’s Managing Editor shah noor hussein on where we’ve been and where we need to go.
Explore essays published in The Arrow Journal on this theme.
This event is part of a three-part series of online conversations on applying contemplative wisdom to pressing social, political, and environmental challenges. We’ll invite authors to reflect on the wisdom of The Arrow’s publications and how participants can apply these insights to our lives and world. Participants will have the opportunity to enter into dialogue with one another and the panelists to share, deepen and imagine together.
Join us for these events:
Power, Politics & Activism: Oct. 30
On Behalf of the Biosphere: Nov. 13
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This program will be recorded for internal organizational purposes.
Moderator—shah noor hussein
shah noor hussein (they / them) is a writer, educator, and multimedia artist crafting narratives at the nexus of Black feminist thought and Queer diaspora studies. They are a doctoral candidate and Cota-Robles Fellow in the Departments of Anthropology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. shah earned their masters in Anthropology and Social Change with a focus on queer Black feminism, liberatory pedagogy, and media production from California Institute of Integral Studies (2017). Their academic writing has been published in The Black Aesthetic Volume II, a collection of essays engaging Black art and visual media and Color Theory, an anthology of women of color reflecting on art, academia, and the non-profit industrial complex. shah’s poetry has been published in Fog Lifter Press (2022), LA Review of Books (2020), Umber (2019), CUNJUH (2017), and will be featured in a forthcoming collection of Black feminist writing, When We Exhale (2023), alongside the works of Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, and June Jordan. shah has studied radically inclusive dharma practices through Buddhist, multicultural, and spiritual approaches to social justice since 2014.
Featured Panelists
Naya Jones, PhD
Naya Jones, PhD (she/her) is an artist-scholar who bridges ritual arts, activism, and research. Her award-winning solo and collaborative work lifts up Black geographies of healing and the environment. She has guided meditation and ceremony with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and social justice organizations since 2008. Her ancestral and spiritual path as a […]
Arisika Razak
Arisika Razak is a Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women’s Spirituality. She is the former Director of the Women’s Spirituality MA and PhD Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also served as Director of Diversity. Arisika is an African-American healer, ritualist, and spiritual dancer, who practices […]
Rima Vesely-Flad
Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad is Visiting Professor of Buddhism and Black Studies at Union Theological Seminary. She is the author of Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation (NYU Press, 2022) and Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice (Fortress […]