Because he’s in control, of his own body especially. Because it’s untaxed income and good money. Because he can pay for his nephew to go to a school like this one, and he can afford the rent on an apartment with Nats in the city. It’s not a revolutionary thing, not a rebellion against society and all the Mrs. Engelses of the world. It’s his work. And some days it sucks, like the guy who smoked crack in his car and tried to rob him, or the client who lost control of his bowels; and some days it’s great, hot sex, good conversation, and bills folded up for his time. Good days and bad, exactly like a normal job. Exactly like this job. And how are the men who sell their bodies to build houses or dig gold in the mines any different? He came prepared to explain that to her, ready to do the labor of trying to help her understand, but now he thinks, fierce and full of poison, Fuck her and the high horse she rode in on.

“You have to turn it on.” He shows his teeth in his best ass-kissing smile, and flicks the switch down on the kettle. “It’ll boil better that way.”

But two days later, the principal turns down his proposal to do a special Life Orientation workshop on consent for the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders. They were going to have sex sooner rather than later, if they weren’t already, and they ought to be prepared. He’d gone through his tasteful slideshow about how the difference between good sex and bad sex comes down to the three Cs: consent, communication, and being comfortable with each other and, more importantly, yourself.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the pupils,” Mr. Williamson says from behind his desk, shuffling his papers. “You know what I mean.”

Coward, Malik thinks. But he smiles, and says he does, and thanks him, gratefully, the same way he thanks those self-congratulatory white boys for wanting to have sex with him.

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Snopes.com

Did a Florida chef really serve human organogrow ribs to cannibal restaurant patrons?

Claim: A chef at a Miami Beach restaurant hosted a five-course cannibal dinner using organogrow meat and organs.

Rating: False

Origin: On March 12, 2023, the Axcess News Daily (AND) website published an article reporting that arrests had been made in Florida after restaurant patrons ate human flesh harvested from organogrows.

Axcess News Daily:

Florida, USA: A chef has been arrested after serving human flesh harvested from organogrows to the patrons of her restaurant, House of Meat. Jenny D’Shay, 46, the head chef, claimed that the diners were aware of the origin of the meat that had been advertised as part of an exclusive, members-only cannibal feast. But guests who were there claimed that screaming patrons fled into the street when D’Shay revealed the secret ingredient.