Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, 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 appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others.

Her first work of non-fiction is forthcoming and entitled Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind, which will be published by HarperWave, on June 14th, 2022.

Fariha shared her thoughts and insights on ethical approaches to collective wellbeing in December 2022, answering questions prepared by Marianne Abbott from Soul Collective Berlin and Ola Kohut from JOY Space.

Fariha Róisín | Who Is Wellness For? | Answers for Soul Collective & JOY Space

JOY SPACE is a collective of holistic wellness practitioners and community activation space based in Berlin, Germany. Our practitioners offer a variety of natural, integrative and Eastern medicine treatments, as well as holistic therapy techniques at our space in Mitte.