The word “cannibal,” the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word “Caribbean”
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“Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck.”
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
― Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“Graffiti is the art of the people. It is a language without clear official status, but whose instinctive quality testifies to the honesty of human experience and the true nobility of art.
Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
― In Search for Meaning
Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
― In Search for Meaning
“...we are always both seeing and not seeing desire around us, especially when that desire steers clear of the form of a heterosexual couple.”
― Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
― Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India
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