Episode 20. Teeka Rohana - Frontline Activism & Stepping Out Our Echo Chamber & Into The Soil

Teeka Rohana is a transpersonal counsellor, student of Indigenous Knowledge, frontline activist and artist. Infusing themes of social injustice and ancestral connection into her theatre, music and poetry. Teeka’s work accentuates the need for pleasure and ritual as embodied forms of dismantling systems of oppression. She is inspired and informed by her matriarchal Indonesian roots as well as the works of Adrienne Maree Brown, The Nap Ministry and Bayo Akomolafe. Teeka currently resides on Bundjalung country working in mental health and disability support work. Teeka recently came back from the Adani coal Mine site after being arrested and abused by the police force while she was chained up to the welding machinery they were using to extract the minerals and resources from our beloved earth. Teeka tells her story of frontline activism, how we can support and why we need more bodies on the frontline.