Description
When we examine ‘homemaking’ in the media, we are being sold. Aprons, dresses, pin-curls, rolling pins. We are being ruled: you must bake bread, you must homeschool, you must be comely each day. And Israelite women are underrepresented: homemaking is a white space, only white femininity is acceptable, and everyone else must conform or disappear.
So I asked myself, what would it look like to have a femininity and home-centric publication that:
- represented Biblically accurate Israelites with old-world imagery?
- prioritizes Scripture and Truth?
- centers women who look, think and behave as you and I?
- All while remaining accessbile, aesthetic, and authentic?
Thus, Princess Abigail Magazine was born in 2025. The theme for this issue, This Humble House, came to me from The Most High, to set the tone for this magazine. That it’s not about perfect tablescapes, pretty aprons, and glamour. I wanted to share literature, visuals, and engaging content that was less about selling a lifestyle to Israelite women, and more about hosting a discourse that centers our problems, thought processes, desires, and most importantly, our place in Scripture.
It seems that all areas of media are willing to bend to represent black women where they normally wouldn’t. Sci-fi films, shows, and literature, notorious for excluding black women or making us an outlier, are bending to show us. Media about Greek mythology and medieval times are showcasing us. Even films depicting indigenous stories, which have been exclusively depicting natives as Asian-descent Bering-Strait migrants only, has finally been showing copper-colored women as natives, too. And yet, there is only genre that refuses– REFUSES– to show us as original to the story, not just as some subset of the culture: Biblical media.
It is not difficult to look at any Biblical film, TV show, novel, and even theatrical media such as play productions and museum showcases, and see that black people are completely erased. How is it that we have been around longer than any other group, life is supposedly “out of Africa” according to Darwinism, and the Bible largely takes place in Canaan (Africa), and yet… Black people are somehow not in the Bible? And if we are shown as being in the Bible, it is only when Ethiopians are mention, and maybe Egyptians will be depicted as black, depending on the studio producing the content. Otherwise, you would think the events of the Bible took place solely in Europe.
Princess Abigail Magazine is a response to an overlapping problem: the erasure of black people in Israelite media, and the suppression of black femininity in the homemaking sphere.
In this very special first issue, we explore:
- the joy of the Biblical Holy days
- embracing humility as you observe at home
- Rahab’s transformative from prostitute to wife and foremother of Yashua
- & SO MUCH MORE!
This product listing is exclusively for the digital e-magazine edition, and will be delivered as a downloadable PDF file upon purchase.
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