Cirrus@Austlit

'As a woman of colour, reading about sex, relationships and desire has often made me feel slightly uneasy. Most depictions of sexual awakening come from straight white women, whose experiences of sex so rarely engage with the nuances of racialised identity. But when I discovered books such as The Terrible (Yrsa Daley Ward) and Sex Lives of African Women (Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah) that deal firsthand with how race can influence our sex lives, it felt as if I had found something that had been missing. This underrepresentation is especially glaring in the Australian context.' (Introduction)