Knowledge Share Description
In this knowledge share, we explore the profundity of wellness—taking care of oneself in order to take care of the community—as an expansive practice. Through colonization, we've been split from our ancient technologies and ruptured from our ancestral lineages and practices of care and spirit. Fariha has written about this extensively, primarily in their book Who Is Wellness For? but in order for us to fully comprehend the future and evolution of our people and society, we must understand that the path to liberation lies within us.
Who Is Wellness For? examines how the wellness industry, capitalism, and colonialism have disrupted ancestral knowledge systems, while also exploring healing, decolonization, and pathways toward collective liberation. This knowledge share will dive into these themes and invite participants to imagine new possibilities for care and community.
Date: Saturday December 6, 2025
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00PM EST
Cost: FREE for Living Library hbc members | Sliding Scale $45, $65, $90 for Non-members
We will explore:
how self-care directly impacts the health and well-being of the community.
how colonization severed connections to ancestral technologies, lineages, and practices of care.
ways to reclaim and integrate ancestral wellness practices into daily life.
Explore issues of appropriation, commodification, epistemicide, decolonization, and degrowth,
how personal wellness and self-knowledge contribute to collective liberation and societal evolution.
strategies to foster wellness within their communities and spheres of influence.
Who this Knowledge Share is For
Care workers, healers, and wellness practitioners
Community organizers and educators
People interested in ancestral knowledge and decolonized practices of care
Individuals seeking to deepen personal wellness and its impact on community well-being
Anyone curious about the intersections of personal wellness, collective care, and liberation
Cost
$45 - low income
$65 - standard
$90 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
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The zoom link will be sent upon registration. Recording will be available for 30 days.
Please apply here for a scholarship.
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Accessibility Information
Virtual Gathering
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.
Saturday December 6, 2025
3:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days. This means you can join from anywhere in the world.
Facilitator
Fariha Róisín is a writer, culture worker, and educator. Born in Ontario, Canada, they were raised in Sydney, Australia, and are based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, they are interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Their work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, degrowth and queer identities and has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others. Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams), a journal called Being In Your Body (Abrams), and a novel named Like A Bird (Unnamed Press) which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Globe and Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, a must-read by Buzzfeed News and received a starred review by the Library Journal. Their first work of non-fiction Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind (HarperWave) was released in 2022, and their second book of poetry Survival Takes A Wild Imagination came out Fall of 2023.