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The Body Online

An ethnography lab for publicly engaged studies of the body, health, medicine, technology, and design.

Recent Projects

Saint or sufferer?: Challenging caricatures of surrogates transnationally

Kaja Aagaard In 2010, Vaishali Sinha and Rebecca Haimowitz set out to tell the stories of Indian surrogates in a rich documentary about...

“Distractibaking”: Kneading Ideas of Comfort and Care

Grace Kellogg On the surface, our kitchen resembled an Instagram-worthy image of a quarantine well spent. Covered in flour and still in...

From Turmeric Shots to the Chia Café Collective: Critically Rethinking Wellness Culture

Anna Wood This past summer, I was interning at a food access organization in Vermont when I came across a row of bottles in the corner of...

Pakistani Feminism and Instagram Models

Amun Chaudhary Pakistani Feminism, much like Pakistani culture, is both rich and layered in diversity. The most recent development is...

Body Anonymity in the Culture of Remote Work

Katie van der Merwe The coronavirus has had widespread effects, including enormous consequences on the culture and methods of...

Community Wellness and Social Justice in Online Spiritual Activism

Jaya Singh During these tumultuous times, countless online discussions related to self-help and mental health care have become...