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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Review by Emily Fuller Australia’s climate of domestic abuse is not exactly clandestine in our reality today. There is a high chance you have experienced abuse at the hands of a perpetrator either physically, sexually or emotionally, or you know someone who has. For myself, I have witnessed the nightmarish nature of violent abuse in […]
Review by Emily Fuller “I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.” Queenie Jenkins is a 25 year-old Jamaican-British woman living in the hustle and bustle of London, walking a fine line between two cultures and yet never seeming to find her sense of place […]
Words by Emily Fuller I am sure most of you know why I am sitting here, with the backlight of a blank screen not at all assisting me in articulating the language I need in response to the of livelihood of those requiring the access to abortion after last week. I feel desperate and devastated […]
Words by Emily Fuller It’s the late sixties, the paramount of bare feet, drugs and rock and roll. Daisy Jones, a coming of age woman is gaining recognition for her allure and her undying relationship with the LA music scene. Simultaneously, a rock and roll blues band, The Six, is also gaining momentum within the […]
