By Rachel Ricketts — 2017
What is shocking is how many white folks are trying to distance themselves from the problem instead of being part of the solution.
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La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.