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Fariha Róisín



Fariha Róisín is a queer South Asian Canadian Muslim poet, essayist, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She is a deep trauma and sexual abuse survivor whose work about identity, self-care, racism, faith, trauma, finding beauty, and sociopolitics has appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appetit, and The Hairpin.

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Muslim Writer Shares Her Abortion Story | NowThis

‘Vulnerability is incredibly powerful and we just don’t use it enough’ — Muslim writer Fariha Róisín opened up about getting an abortion and the feelings of shame she dealt with for years.

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Fariha Róisín Turns Personal Trauma into Narratives of Cultural Resistance

Document takes you inside Róisín’s home as she talks beauty, recovery, and navigating cultural shame.

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Fariha Róisín Turns Personal Trauma into Narratives of Cultural Resistance

Document takes you inside Róisín’s home as she talks beauty, recovery, and navigating cultural shame

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Being in Your Body: A Journal for Self-Love and Body Positivity

What would life be like without the negativity surrounding our bodies? Body shame, reinforced by socially entrenched beauty norms and intensified by social media, is incredibly difficult to shake.

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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín

Few things excite and comfort me these days like a conversation with a like-minded woman who has found her voice.

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The Necessity of Healing Through Poetry with Fariha Róisín

A reading of poetry for "How To Cure A Ghost," Fariha Róisín will also provide directives and questions on How and Why do we heal?

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The Pen Ten: An Interview with Fariha Róisín

Katie Zanecchia speaks with Fariha Róisín, author of Like a Bird (The Unnamed Press, 2020).

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Like a Bird

A revolutionary story of empowerment and redemption, Like a Bird is the highly anticipated debut novel from Fariha Róisín, author of the poetry collection How to Cure a Ghost Taylia Chatterjee has never known love, and certainly has never felt it for herself.

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Fariha Roisin on the Healing Power of Poetry

Fariha Róisín’s piquant essays explore racism, faith, queer identity, and misogyny. Now the Brooklyn-based writer is diving back into these ideas via a brand-new medium: poetry.

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Newest Magazine: Interview with Fariha Róisín & Raji Aujla - “My Body and Her Work”

Raji Aujla interviews writer Fariha Róisín about what informs her work and what inspires her as an artist.

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