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Rima Vesely-Flad Ph.D.

The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde

by Rima Vesely-Flad Ph.D. (Author) Format: Paperback

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Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde

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The Fire Inside explores the writings of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin through a Dharmic lens, revealing for the first time how two of America’s greatest literary voices reflect—and expand—Buddhism’s most timeless truths toward justice and liberation.

Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad dives deeply into a dharma of liberation as lived by Baldwin and Lorde, offering timely lessons to help us each meet this moment. She explores the writers’ enduring legacies to show that liberation depends not only on organizing and mass movements, but the generative power of inner well-being, authenticity, art, and embodiment. Each chapter shares how looking inward is the way forward, examining Baldwin and Lorde through key Buddhist principles:

Suffering as a teacher: how Baldwin and Lorde investigated suffering in their own lives—and how expanded and disrupted interpretations of the Dharma
Denial, impermanence, and death: on Baldwin’s exploration of white supremacy and fear of death and Lorde’s understanding of illness and inevitable change
Ultimate and relative reality: how honoring race, gender, sexuality, and difference lies at the heart of Buddhist liberation
Karma and not-self: how the doctrine of karma can be reclaimed to cultivate inner liberation and support activists working to dismantle oppression
Anger and compassion: how we metabolize internalized rage, reject hatred, and embrace compassion toward transformation
Erotic paths to enlightenment: on the power of sensuality and erotic energy; rejecting dominant heteronormativity; and attaining enlightenment through sexual union

This book offers space for emerging conversations within spiritual communities—ones that don’t shy away from difficult or uncomfortable truths; that center—and celebrate—Black, queer, radical thought; and that embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation.

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North Atlantic Books
Publication date

February 3, 2026
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6 x 0.55 x 8.98 inches
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979-8889842583

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"I have followed and admired Rima Vesely-Flad’s work for years. She is
tapping resources that all of us can access for greater hope and change."
—MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of The New Jim Crow

"This groundbreaking work is a gift of love reminding us of how Black liberation struggle, like the dharma itself, has always been about everyone getting free."
—LAMA ROD OWENS, author of Love and Rage and The New Saints

"This is a read not to miss. . . . I find my own embers of wellness, justice, and harmony stoked with her joy of expression from the heart and mind on behalf of us all.”
—LARRY WARD, Buddhist teacher, author, and cofounder of The Lotus Institute

"This book is a fire that both illuminates and refines, a call to engage with the truth of our times while drawing strength from ancestral wisdom."
—RUTH KING, author of Mindful of Race

About the Author

Rima Vesely-Flad, PhD, is the author of Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation (NYU Press, 2022) and Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice (Fortress Press, 2017). She is Founding Director of the Initiative for Black Buddhist Studies and a Visiting Affiliate Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion. Dr. Vesely-Flad is former Founding Director of the Inside Out Prison Education Program, a partnership between the Swannanoa Correctional Institution for Women and Warren Wilson College, and also taught college-level courses at Sing Sing Prison in New York State. She was a Fulbright Scholar and Awardee in South Africa and Ghana. You can follow her work at www.blackbuddhiststudies.org and on Instagram @blackbuddhiststudies.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F7G4HCN9
Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8889842583
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 8.98 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #145,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #17 in LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies
- #114 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #123 in Buddhism (Books)
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