Intestinal Colonization

The title rips open a double meaning: colonization as both imperial conquest and literal bodily invasion. The Queen’s stomach becomes a site of colonial violence—digesting Black bodies into the machinery of empire, swallowing life and excreting rule.

The children around her are deformed, broken, weeping. Their skin tone, posture, and placement echo histories of Africa and the Caribbean, where British colonizers extracted bodies, labor, and land for centuries. Her feast is not hidden—it’s on full display. This is not myth. This is history dressed in blood and lace.