Fariha Roísín on Choosing Not to Assimilate

Photo: Sylvie Roskoff

“Why am I trying to be a part of a canon that literally does not even understand me?”

Fariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and multi-disciplinary artist. She is the founder of Studio Ānanda, a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness. She has published How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams, 2019), Being In Your Body (Abrams, 2019) and Like A Bird (Unnamed Press, 2020) which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR.