Words by Emily Fuller Art By Marija Tiurina – @marijatiurina It was a Tuesday afternoon when I thought about my death. The broody storm and vicious rain that was pounding on my front porch almost seemed like a pathetic fallacy. It was several weeks into the most recent lockdown, where days were filled with takeaway […]
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The Time I Found Out I Was Going To Die
Words by Emily Fuller Art By Marija Tiurina – @marijatiurina It was a Tuesday afternoon when I thought about my death. The broody storm and vicious rain that was pounding on my front porch almost seemed like a pathetic fallacy. It was several weeks into the most recent lockdown, where days were filled with takeaway […]
A Response To My Rapist: Why victims’ narratives matter
Words by Emily Fuller As a survivor of sexual assault, I am constantly reminded that the palpable grief of my trauma is always going to be fixed into the fabric of my life to varying degrees. There are times where I have to move through the dense stickiness of it maybe not constantly, but definitely […]
Book Review: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Review by Emily Fuller You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both. Black twin sisters Desiree and Stella have skin so pale that can pass for white. They grew-up in a small Southern black community that collectively believe that the lighter their skin is […]
Book Review: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Review by Emily Fuller Newlyweds Roy and Celestial are living the dream of the New South. Roy, an extremely industrious and entrepreneurial young black man, has fought his way out of the middle-class confines whilst securing both a study scholarship and a marriage to Celestial along the way. Everything about their marriage oozes love, dedication […]
Book Review: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Review by Emily Fuller When you begin to wonder if life is really just waiting for buses on Tottenham Court Road and ordering books you’ll never read off Amazon; in short, you are having an existential crisis. You are realizing the mundanity of life. You are finally understanding how little point there is to anything. […]
Fun-loving Decade?: The innate fear of failing your twenties
Words by Emily Fuller The further I get into my twenties, the more anxious I feel about living in them. Or to be more precise, the more worrisome I feel about failing at them. I often feel myself struck with inertia at the prospect of failing at not attaining the correct life experience – in […]
Interview: Pleasure & Peach
Sexual pleasure and self-care is something that we are really passionate and open about here on The Banksia Woman, and yet we find it particularly hard to find access to sex education and pleasure products that are not only safe and fun, but are also sensitive to a woman’s sense of empowerment and her own […]
Book Review: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Review by Emily Fuller Alix Chamberlain is a woman who is so used to getting what she wants that she has built a career in coaching other woman how to achieve the same. Growing comfortable in the hustle of New York City, she transforms her small blog into a small confidence-driven empire. That is, until […]
Jane, Emily and Me: Finding your spirit through the practice of reading
Words by Emily Fuller My affinity for reading presented itself from a very early age. I was always entranced by the literary gateways that would open up before me, offering passage into another world of the fiction and the fantastic. I would run, jump and swim through words to escape a reality of my own, […]
Too Feminine for Feminism?: The trouble with coded femininities in identifying as a woman
Words by Emily Fuller The body is a vessel that often comes with the expectation that it should be unique in reflecting identity construction. Through today’s climate of social media in abundance, it increasingly feels as if our performance of presentation is being monitored and measured to have judgement passed upon it. In particular, there […]