By Lucy Powell — 2009
At the age of 21, Tenzin Palmo swapped her job as a London librarian for life as a nun in a monastery in India - but even that wasn't remote enough for her.
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After generations in the shadows, the intersex rights movement has a message for the world: We aren’t disordered and we aren’t ashamed.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.
The ever-viral artist discusses his meteoric rise and the pressures of being a Black gay musician on a global stage.
In his new book, Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions, Bhikkhu Analayo investigates some of the ways we as Buddhists have deluded ourselves about the “other”—from ongoing discrimination against women to the idea that Theravada practitioners have special access to the “pure” teachings.
In this 2011 Buddhadharma Forum, Larry Yang, Amanda Rivera, Bob Agoglia, and Rev. angel Kyodo williams discuss how to foster meaningful diversity in American Buddhism.
Freddy McConnell’s lawyer says judge was wrong to say ‘mother’ was not a gendered term.
We raise our girls to fight stereotypes and pursue their dreams, but we don’t do the same for our boys.
Hyperindividual, you-do-you young people from across the U.S. are upending the convention that when it comes to gender and sexuality, there are only two options for each: male or female, gay or straight.
Grounded in our formal practice of meditation, we can relax into the vast, open awareness that is our ultimate nature. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche tells the story of his own introduction to the Great Perfection.
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