BLACK FEMINISMS AND BUDDHISM: LOVE, POWER AND JUSTICE

Presented by Nilmini Fernando

Hosted by Siteworks
07/11/2020
Talk #99

Image courtesy of Nilmini Fernando

NILMINI FERNANDO presents: ‘Black Feminisms and Buddhism: Love, Power and Justice’

Presented in collaboration with Siteworks
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A unique and inspiring talk that uncovers the practices of love as a revolutionary and evolutionary force of transformation at the core of Buddhism and Black /Third World feminisms. Love is a praxis. We shift our perception, sit in equipoise recognize, cultivate and enact love to expand space for living this human life.

NILMINI FERNANDO is a Sri Lankan Australian scholar, speaker and activist with a background in Black /Postcolonial Feminisms and Critical Intersectional Theory as decolonial praxis. She is the originator of Loving Feminist Literature that curates and performs non-Western feminist texts and Research Fellow at Griffith University.