About Us
Prinita Thevarajah (she/her) is a Tamil artist and educator working at the intersection of political education and socially engaged art, grounded in a pedagogy of hope and change. Drawing on experiences as a displaced settler and survivor navigating healing, unlearning conditioning and confronting white and caste supremacy, Prinita is interested in expanding what is traditionally understood as ‘being well’. With Studio Ānanda, Prinita asks: who has historically had authority over healing, how does the wellness industry replicate the status quo and what does a pro liberation, anti colonial healing practice look like?
Raver Jinn / Sonia (they/ them) is a graphic designer and multimedia artist interested in translating properties of jinnhood - including gender expansiveness, playfulness, haunting, good/evil pluralism, and transformation (or unlearning) - to their art, political work, and interpersonal relationships. Their work with Studio Ānanda is rooted in personal and secondhand lessons on the ways beauty norms, caste, and other supremacies inform mainstream wellness culture, as well as their intentions to help mitigate cyber trauma and design for healing.
Fariha Róisín (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist. She is the author of multiple books, including How To Cure A Ghost, her upcoming novel, Like A Bird and first book of non-fiction Who Is Wellness For: On Radical Wellness. Her work dissects the prism of healing from the tectonic impact of white inferiority, patriarchal violence and racial capitalism, focusing in on ancestral/familial trauma and sexual violence. She believes taking social accountability will revolutionize society, and help synthesize communal evolution. She believes everybody deserves to (and should) heal.
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