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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 It is incredibly difficult to articulate the intricacies of emotional abuse and gaslighting. Its silence and invisibility allows for it to go undetected for frightening lengths of time in all different forms of relationships. The nature of this abuse is incredibly broad, with no case ever looking identical and comparable. It […]
Words by Elaine Mead ‘Words don’t define you, actions do.’ You’ve probably heard or been told the above at some point, or at least something similar with the same intent behind it. Perhaps, ‘put your money where your mouth is’ or ‘you talk the talk, now walk the walk’, might sound more familiar. Essentially, saying […]
Words by Elaine Mead “Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. I lived. It wasn’t easy. And yet. I found out how little is unbearable.” A dalliance of popular #Bookstagram accounts put Nicole Krauss’ second novel ‘The History […]
Words by Emily Fuller I have always been a sensitive soul. Maybe even thin-skinned, if you will. I get heart palpitations that thump thump thump at the mere sight of a close friend crying until their eyes dry up. My clammy hands can sometimes become a breeding ground for nervous energy as my head endures […]
