‘Racism is a heart disease, and it’s cureable!’ – Ruth King
Trainings:
WAIC UP!
White Awareness Insight Curriculum for Uprooting Privilege: A Dharma and Racism Study Program, 2016
This training that has been undertaken by all the nuns and board members of the Saranaloka Foundation, as a way to wake up to whiteness and to learn about decolonization.
Investigating White Identity, 2021
Updated program to reflect more recent events.
Antiracism Study Dialogue Circles, Workshops
Talks, Articles & Books:
Bhikkhu Analayo, Confronting Racism with Mindfulness, 2020
Bhikkhuni Pannavati, Greed, hatred & delusion, and how it relates to the BLM movement, 2020
Bhikkhu Bodhi, From Tragedy Springs Hope: Reflections on the Killing of George Floyd, 2020
Kalyanee Mam, Unraveling the Stitches, 2021
Kimberly Jones, How Can We Win, 2020
Noel Quintana, ‘I Shouted For Help, But Nobody Helped Me’: Asian Americans Are Under Attack, 2021
Othering & Belonging Institute, Structural Racsim Explained, 2023
Rhonda Magee & Bhikkhu Analayo, Mindfully Confronting Racism: Buddhism & the Inner Work of Racial Justice, 2020
Ruth King, Mindful of Race, 2018
Shakil Choudhury, Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them, 2015
Online Resources:
Othering & Belonging Institute
The Climate Reality Project: Sacrifice Zones 101
Ruth King, Mindful of Race Institute
Joe Faegin, Systemic White Racism ~ a summary, 2020 | www.racismreview.com/blog
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies: Ways to Engage in Social Justice & Glossary of Helpful Terms
Tsuru for Solidarity: Stop Repeating History
