Addressing Racism

‘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 JusticeGlossary of Helpful Terms

Tsuru for Solidarity: Stop Repeating History