identity/personhood
Falsehoods I wore
Insult to Injury
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)
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?
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
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)
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)
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