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.

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

After a brief exile during the body positive movement of the mid to late 2010s, “skinny culture” has recently slithered back into the mainstream. Health visits for eating disorders more than doubled among under 17s in recent years according to one study, celebrities openly use Ozempic and other GLP-1s, and “ultra-thinness” has returned as a beauty... See more