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Is the Cannibal Girl Trend Just Diet Culture in Disguise?
Ultimately, we’re terrified by the idea of women eating, being hungry, and getting healthier, heavier and happier. This is a world where the boundaries between consumption and self-denial, power and passivity often trace the crude line dividing men and women.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Lucy Rose “explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts.”
Ella Dorn • It-girl literary heroines are all cannibals now
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.