My skin tingles all over as a torrent of angry cells flows through my veins; my soft tissue, internal organs and joints bloat and bulge;...

The story of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ as told by The Brothers Grimm, first published in 1812 in the collection Grimm’s Fairy Tales, clearly depicts patriarchal dominance and strongly suggests women are the weaker and more troublesome sex. The story of two young children, abandoned in a dark and frightening forest who fall into the hands of a cannibalistic witch, is full of perpetuations of the gender stereotypes that place women as either subservient and feeble minded or destructi

What is it about poetry, trochees and spondees and dactyls and iambs and iambs and dactyls and spondees and trochees and spondees and...

Every woman has a unique and powerful story that is integral to the narrative of female empowerment, feminism. I am one of those women...

I’ve long known that artistic inspiration comes in waves. One day you are being swept along on a tsunami of creativity, riding high, euphorically smug about the abundance of ideas crashing onto the shore (or, erm, blank page) before you; the next day you are parched dry, shrivelled up and flaking on a vast sandy beach, the tide is miles out and pathetically spitting its way back to meet you, in no hurry whatsoever, with complete disregard for your deadlines. Today is a dry da

The threat of suicide dominated my childhood and adolescence. I watched the men in my family struggle with extreme mental health issues...

Motherhood? I’m making it up as I go along. I think most women do. But I began with a slight- no, significant- disadvantage. Included in...

These tapestries are age-old, multi-purpose pieces of textile art, woven on looms using weft-faced weaving, where exposed warp threads are concealed at the back of the finished piece, presenting outwardly a perfect façade. Families are like tapestries, warped strands purposely hidden from sight, and only the best yarns preserved and displayed. Like families, tapestries evolve in various forms. Most curious of all is textile wall art, purposely exhibited tapestries that favour