identity/personhood
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.
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
Incorrect eating is tied in with an incorrect expression of sexuality.
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
dehumanise people of colour
Substack • i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
cannibalism as an act to signal the other
(the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within u.s. slave culture by Vincent Woodward)
reclaiming the body
i love you so much i could eat you (an essay on cannibalism)
femininity is centred in consumption,
cannibalism is used as a tool to reclaim it
There’s only two things that continue to fascinate me with their impermanence and confinement of an entire world into something singular, secular, sometimes lonely: hotels and lovers
WHAT IF YOU'RE EASY TO LOVE
there is something about hotels. something about this temporary home. why does it feel this way?
Falsehoods I wore
Insult to Injury
as a writer, even as a child, long before what i wrote began to be published i developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs
the one about ai.
joan didion