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FARIHA RÓISÍN on the Courage of Listening to Our Bodies /354

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week, Fariha Róisín offers both timely and timeless wisdom on what it means to live in a body that has experienced trauma. This is a conversation that bears witness to the deep terror and distress of the world and still charges forward with undying compassion and care – the compassion and care of wild survival.


Offering both deep personal reflection and spacious contemplation about the state of the world, Fariha reminds us that our bodies guide us to what we need. This episode brings up the things that we so often don’t want to touch – trauma, abuse, global systems of disregard – and handles them with care and love. Fariha shows us what it means to take pain seriously.


Throughout the episode Fariha threads in a profound relationship with god, and a type of faith that is filled with questioning, fueled by queer thought, and driven by love. In even the darkest of times we can turn to love, accountability, and community to find the care that we need.


Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, in liminality, otherness and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam and queer identities and has been featured in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Vogue. She is the author of the poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost (2019), as well as the novel Like A Bird (2020), Who Is Wellness For? (2022) and her second book of poetry is entitled Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, due fall 2023.


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Music by Misha Sultan (with special thanks to Patience Records), Amo Amo, Colloboh (with special thanks to Leaving Records), and Amber Rubarth. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast. I'm Ayane Young. Today we are speaking with Farihah

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Rochie. In our bodies we are that living sacred form of our ancestors. No, we continue in both a

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spiritual and a physical sense, I think. All of these layers of sometimes harm and sometimes beauty,

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but it's sort of for us to kind of undertake and face in these lifetimes. At least that's

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what I have come to understand in my own healing journey. And so through that, I've seen that

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the body is really the strongest template for us to understand who we are.

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Farihah Rochiehn is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in

1:42.4

Sydney, Australia and is based in Los Angeles. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in

1:48.6

the margins, in liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a

1:55.6

refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities,

2:01.2

and has been featured in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and Bobe. She's the author

2:06.8

of the Poetry Collection, How to Hear Ghost, as well as a novel like a bird, who is wellness for,

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and her second book of poetry is entitled Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, Do Fall 2023.

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Ah, Farihah, I am really excited that we are connecting. And yeah, I'm just feeling really

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