Maia Duerr

Maia Duerr is a writer, anthropologist, and activist. She trained at the Upaya Zen Center to serve as a Buddhist Chaplain. Her blog is at the Liberated Life Project.

Can religion be a force for transformation?

Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma: her mother had done something in a past life to deserve the violence. Now, as a radical feminist lesbian, she teaches activists that Buddhism can be a way to fight oppression

By Maia Duerr

/ 28 Oct 2013

Welcome to the Ministry of Social Transformation

Looking for alternatives to “the denial-laden pseudo-optimistic think-happy-thoughts crap that so often passes for spirituality in numb, consumerist America?” Check out the work of the Protest Chaplains of Occupy who were interviewed by Maia Duerr.

By Maia Duerr

/ 11 Jul 2013