28.11.2025
The Rise (and Flaws) of Cannibal Feminism by Shaniya aka Shanspeare
https://blossom.primal.net/e8ff5787b8209e99b1776a7830c84e3345bf80d420cc156a6d7f90b9c13fa667.mov
Act One: I am obscene to you
"Corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is 'I want to eat."
- Erica Jong, Where it Begins
https://blossom.primal.net/e8d72d022c20a164d2ce83a32f0ea6c213b3e9e8fa623045f5cc54c3a42f2a68.mov
feminine appetite is regulated in one of two ways: diet or death
"'How Beautiful Women Eat': Feminine Hunger in American Popular Culture."
by April Davidauskis
Feminist Formations, vol. 27, no. 1.
2015. pp. 167-89. JSTOR
https://blossom.primal.net/fde8572ecc13c77f7c6d4d97290ea42fe41dcb0d575a6361bec2f42d38cff60a.mov
the insatiability of trying to heal
https://blossom.primal.net/bcae7545ac22cfd9b98100c2cae4f437eae084f524c641988c35040125b6a2ec.mov
"[The author's ambivalence] towards her own creation may stem from her realization that, since her culture associates the excessive female body with lower classes, especially [Black people], loosening the straight jacket of restrained appetites would not so much liberate the upper class white woman, as lower their class status and the privileges that come with it."
- Debra Beilke
https://blossom.primal.net/ef3c8390e5066f00cd954bf754c220ba6e9ad88b4f41859e884401d7f5208b41.mov
