Carrie Zhang: Dispelling the Model Minority Myth for Asian Liberation
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Carrie Zhang: Dispelling the Model Minority Myth for Asian Liberation

In a culture that makes it impossible to talk openly and honestly about sex and privileges male-dominated views on sexuality, porn becomes the default sex education. Women and men are left without real models for body parts, intimacy and relationship dynamics in the bedroom. How might we reimagine the landscape of human sexuality with “education through demonstration” and put our money where our mouth is?

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Nadine McNeil: Spiritual Activism for Knowing Thyself
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Nadine McNeil: Spiritual Activism for Knowing Thyself

In a systemically racist society where more black bodies end up in prison over white bodies, the chances are stacked against BIPOCs who often see and live out the worst sides of humanity. How might we look to the heroic survivors of injustice as our greatest spiritual teachers of our time, and work through our traumas at the nexus of both bodily and psycho-spiritual realms?

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Melvin Hart: Plant Medicine and the Path to Self-Mastery
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Melvin Hart: Plant Medicine and the Path to Self-Mastery

In a systemically racist society where more black bodies end up in prison over white bodies, the chances are stacked against BIPOCs who often see and live out the worst sides of humanity. How might we look to the heroic survivors of injustice as our greatest spiritual teachers of our time, and work through our traumas at the nexus of both bodily and psycho-spiritual realms?

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Swaady Martin: Diversity is Our Collective Superpower
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Swaady Martin: Diversity is Our Collective Superpower

When faced with a healing-consciousness world that is mostly white and homogenous, we face a huge missed opportunity for the learning that happens when diverse voices and identities cross-pollinate, come together and collaborate. What might be possible if we close the gap by activating diversity in the spirituality world, and better yet -- integrate spirituality, diversity and conscious entrepreneurialism?

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