Considering the Performative Politics of Food In the last two years, Michelle Obama has danced with Beyoncé, planted White House gardens with visiting students, and even jump roped on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as part of her Let’s…
On the TLC reality television program “19 Kids and Counting,” Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar chronicle their lives raising nineteen children on a sprawling Arkansas ranch. The Duggars adhere to a fundamentalist evangelical movement known as Quiverfull, which implores…
A recent piece in the New York Times lamented the lack of humorous quotables from this season’s GOP campaign trail. Sure, the candidates have been the collective butts of many a joke, but they aren’t intentionally funny, which is really…
IN the first half of 2011 alone, nineteen states implemented over 160 pieces of policy and legislation related to reproductive health. Almost half of these provisions sought to curtail access to abortion in some way. According to the Guttmacher Institute,…
