i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)...

i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)

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Dr. Nicola Welsh Burke says, "What is a greater expression of love than eating someone else or wanting to consume and have that person in a way that no one else can have?"4 Dr. Burke explores the intersection of food, eating, and sexuality

Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)

Media and literature are increasingly captivated by cannibalism, but what does it signify? Often interpreted as the ultimate metaphor for love by fans, cannibalism can represent themes of class conflict, bodily autonomy, revenge, and even queerness.

Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)

As Summers notes, "horror belongs to women because we understand, on a gut-punch level, how it feels to be viewed as a monster [...] as well as how it feels to be reduced to body parts".3

Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)

Cannibalism can portray an intimate and uncomfortable look at love while illustrating the idea of ‘the other’ to tell stories about marginalised groups of people.