on love

what love means, explored in different lens

There is the idea of absorbing or incorporating within.

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

the idea of owning someone so completely, and they’ll always be with you

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)

permanency of the two becoming one

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

something promised. irreversible. with eating and consumption what are you allowing yourself to consume?

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?

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

notes on cannibalism

(dr Nicola welsh burke)