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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Bibliotherapy: A nearly-new way to make sense of love and life
Words by Elaine Mead “Reading is escaping, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” Nora Ephron Most people enjoy reading, some don’t find a […]
A Degree of Worldliness: Why studying an arts degree is still integral today
Words by Emily Fuller As many of you already know, by studying an arts degree you become the target for endless backhanded comments and judgments about your future. You grow not only immune – deflecting every negative comment off your hardened exterior, but also expectant of the too familiar looks of disapproval that are painted […]