“But it’s the death threats that have continued to ferment for me. What is it about a woman’s curves, a woman’s supple thighs, a woman’s dimpled cheeks or ample waist that elicits violence? Perhaps the bodily reality of a fat woman is itself a rupture of a contract every femme person is conscripted to sign: to present their bodies as offerings for men’s consumption and indulgence, starved and sculpted to the beauty standards of the day. Fatness is an in-your-face rupture of this contract.”

Emily’s review of I Will Eat You Alive, a new work by Baltimore’s Katie Hileman.