Contact author

About 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.

Articles by Maia Duerr

This week's editor

Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Can religion be a force for transformation?

Maia Duerr 28 October 2013

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

Welcome to the Ministry of Social Transformation

Maia Duerr 11 July 2013

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.