This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Fariha Róisín for a conversation at the intersections of writing, politics, care, and liberation.
Fariha is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. She’s the author of five books and writes the Substack newsletter, How to Cure a Ghost.
In this episode, Fariha shares her experience telling the truth amidst propaganda and channeling righteous rage into writing. She explains how she approaches writing about Palestine during the genocide in Gaza and how she embeds the depth of her feelings and beliefs in her work.
Tune in to hear about—
Feeling the responsibility to speak out
Fariha’s process for working on two books at once
Pouring your feelings into your writing
Demystifying spiritual practice
The importance of surrender
Where the personal meets the political
How Fariha writes her weekly newsletter
Links
Mentioned in the episode: James Baldwin, Mother Country Radicals
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