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Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad on Hard Knock Radio: Baldwin, Lorde, and the Discipline of Liberation (Encore)
On a recent broadcast of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D welcomed Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, scholar, Buddhist practitioner, and founder of the Initiative for Black Buddhist Studies, for a wide ranging conversation about her new book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. What unfolded over the better part of an hour was less a book promotion than a working seminar on the inseparable bond between interior practice and political resistance. Vesely-Flad told listeners that her path to Buddhism began in the Bay Area, where she sought an internal foundation that activist…
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