Kerry Porter - “Hindu Facebook Justice”

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Kerry Porter joins J to discuss some of the comment threads they have participated in together as mutual members of a Facebook group, and the implications they share with broader issues in our politics. They talk about the decolonizing of language and culture, listening to the voices of injustice, the marketplace of exploitation, appropriated yoga, and how we might begin to stop perpetuating oppressive power imbalances through reparatory justice instead of essentially telling people to “go eat a turd pie."

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0:00.0	Hello out there. Welcome. This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Thank you for taking some time today to listen.
0:24.0	I have to admit that I'm finding a little bit hard to do the thing, whatever that is that I hope to do the thing, whatever that is, that I hope to do when I'm greeting you for a new talk.
0:47.4	That's because there is so much upheaval and death and injustice that seems to be ratcheted up and and i've been having
1:03.4	all these conversations and you know those have you been listening getting a fair amount of criticism.
1:20.8	And I always keep politics out of my yoga class, and I've kept politics off this podcast
1:24.1	because I just don't think it's my place to say anything about anything
1:30.8	except my own experience, maybe.
1:37.1	So it is appropriate that today's talk is about politics.
1:46.0	It starts out with some politics that happen within the yoga world.
1:52.0	It comes out of a Facebook group that I'm part of.
1:56.0	I've mentioned people from this Facebook group in conversations on this podcast before.
2:02.7	Some people in this group are those who've attacked friends of mine, frankly.
2:09.3	Although I wouldn't say that's all the people in the group, and some of those people are not around, it seems, anymore.
2:16.4	But there are a lot of people on this Facebook group
2:20.1	that are Hindu people from India
2:24.3	and they take issue with a lot of things that are happening
2:28.6	and a lot of things that people say, including me.
2:32.7	I've gone toe to toe with a few people in that group because I want to
2:37.8	hear their perspective and I speak honestly to them because I'm curious to hear what they think
2:44.3	about me and what I do from their perspective. And whenever I've had an exchange that made me have to question or really felt
2:56.7	substantive, I always reach out and say, hey, would you want to come on the podcast and
3:01.7	talk about this?
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