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April 11, 2025 66 mins

In today's episode I am talking-to the wonderful Fariha Róisín. Fariha is a multidisciplinary artist born in Canada, raised in Australia and now based in Los Angeles, California.

They're a Muslim queer Bangladeshi interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. They're the author of the poetry collections, How to Cure a Ghost and Survival Takes A Wild Imagination and the novel Like a Bird. Or so it says in the book jacket of their latest nonfiction hybrid memoir, Who is Wellness For?

I've come across Fariha's work five years ago via their substack, which is also called How to Cure a Ghost and named after their first poetry collection. And another thing that actually connects us is that when I was writing my second book, Things I Have Loved, I asked Fariha to quote a line from an essay that she wrote and they so kindly said yes. And so it feels a bit like a full circle moment for me to have you here on the podcast today.


Follow Fariha on Instagram here and read her substack How To Cure A Ghost here.


Things that were mentioned:

- All of Fariha's books here

- Braiding Sweetgrass & The Service Berry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

- The podcast episode Fariha mentioned with the philosopher Bayo Akomolafe

⁠- Things That Are Different Now by Sophia Hembeck ⁠


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