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Phoebe Cannard-Higgins

Phoebe Cannard-Higgins

Phoebe Cannard-Higgins is a writer from Melbourne. She has published essays and short stories online and in-print. She has a Master’s in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths college, London. 

Phoebe Cannard-Higgins reviews ‘Taboo’ by Hannah Ferguson

November 2024, no. 470 28 October 2024
For Hannah Ferguson, the real meaning of a taboo is ‘a conversation which frays the fabric of patriarchy. A subject clouded in stigma which serves systems and institutions of power.’ Taboo is the sequel to her first book, Bite Back (2023). Both books argue that language and communication are the tools with which we can dismantle patriarchy. Bite Back considered patriarchal structures and syst ... (read more)