DeepSummary
The episode features an interview with Fariha Róisín, a multidisciplinary artist and author exploring themes of wellness, healing, and identity. She discusses her approach to writing about trauma and healing, and critiques the wellness industrial complex for extracting and commodifying indigenous knowledge without proper respect or reciprocity. Róisín emphasizes the importance of contextualizing wellness within relationships to community, land, and ancestry.
Róisín shares her experiences working with plant medicines and how they have deepened her connection to the Earth and understanding of sacred reciprocity. She argues that true healing requires addressing the root causes of harm, including colonialism and exploitation of people and the planet. Róisín calls for a return to indigenous wisdom and practices that prioritize collective well-being over individualism and profit.
Throughout the conversation, Róisín reflects on her journey of healing from trauma, her identity as a queer Bangladeshi immigrant, and the need to disrupt dominant narratives that perpetuate harm. She encourages listeners to embrace art and creativity as means of truth-telling and revolutionary change towards a more just, sustainable, and interconnected future.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Róisín critiques the wellness industrial complex for extracting and commodifying indigenous knowledge without proper respect or reciprocity.
- She emphasizes the importance of contextualizing wellness within relationships to community, land, and ancestry.
- Róisín shares her experiences working with plant medicines and how they have deepened her connection to the Earth and understanding of sacred reciprocity.
- She argues that true healing requires addressing the root causes of harm, including colonialism and exploitation of people and the planet.
- Róisín calls for a return to indigenous wisdom and practices that prioritize collective well-being over individualism and profit.
- She encourages listeners to embrace art and creativity as means of truth-telling and revolutionary change towards a more just, sustainable, and interconnected future.
- Róisín reflects on her journey of healing from trauma, her identity as a queer Bangladeshi immigrant, and the need to disrupt dominant narratives that perpetuate harm.
- Despite the heavy topics discussed, she conveys an overall sense of optimism and belief in the possibility of transformative change through collective effort.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Fariha spiritually and what I've also gained from plant medicines is understanding that there is so much wisdom to the earth and that there's so much wisdom to these plants that they laugh at greed, they laugh at the absurdity of it. And I think that we have to get to a point where we start to see how absurd it is that people have billions of dollars and they are unwilling to help more than half this planet.“ by Fariha Roshin
- “It makes me think a lot about how urban environments are another factor of what kind of is there to debilitate you or demoralize you or disconnect you from who you are and again, from the earth. So you're constantly having to just put yourself into a little box and compartmentalize all of your needs, when in fact, if you could just go to the ocean, you would probably be deeply impacted by how this earth continues to move and shift.“ by Fariha Roshin
- “And I am an optimist because I'm looking at it and I'm realizing that once you start looking at it, it's not that scary anymore.“ by Fariha Roshin
- “Revolution is possible, evolution is possible, and I hope that we can all begin to work towards that with each other.“ by Fariha Roshin
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Episode Information
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kamea Chayne
10/27/21
How have the wellness and beauty industries thrived off of a dominant culture of non-acceptance? And what might be the healing potentials that lie in plant medicines—when their sacred origins and rituals are honored and respected?
In this episode, we welcome Fariha Róisín. As a multidisciplinary artist who is a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, in liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being.
Róisín is the author of the poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost, as well as the novel Like A Bird. Her upcoming work is a book of non-fiction entitled, Who Is Wellness For? and her second book of poetry is entitled Survival Takes a Wild Imagination.
The song featured in this episode is Little Girl by Lil Idli.
Green Dreamer is a community-supported podcast and multimedia journal exploring our paths to collective healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, transcripts, and newsletter at GreenDreamer.com.
*Our episodes are minimally edited. Please view them as invitations to dive deeper into the topics and resources explored.