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    Saint or sufferer?: Challenging caricatures of surrogates transnationally
    Body Online Lab
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 5 min

    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...
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    “Distractibaking”: Kneading Ideas of Comfort and Care
    Body Online Lab
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 5 min

    “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...
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    From Turmeric Shots to the Chia Café Collective: Critically Rethinking Wellness Culture
    Body Online Lab
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Pakistani Feminism and Instagram Models
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 21, 2020
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Body Anonymity in the Culture of Remote Work
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 5 min

    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...
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    Community Wellness and Social Justice in Online Spiritual Activism
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    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...
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    “Hips TikTok when I dance, on that Demon Time she might start an OnlyFans” Sex Work and TikTok
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    “Hips TikTok when I dance, on that Demon Time she might start an OnlyFans” Sex Work and TikTok

    Emma Bernstein Mia Khalifa is potentially one of the most noticeable case studies for the overlap between TikTok, a new social media...
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    To Whoever Threw That Tear Gas...
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    To Whoever Threw That Tear Gas...

    Claire Martens A six second viral video from 2014 gifted us an iconic phrase that many know: “whoever threw that paper, your moms a hoe”....
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    Learning Anatomy Online
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 6 min

    Learning Anatomy Online

    Anneliese Mills The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada has had widespread consequences for the organization of health care services and medical...
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    Agency and Duplicity Online: A Tale of Two Influencers
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    Agency and Duplicity Online: A Tale of Two Influencers

    Natasha Cuneo In early June, Toronto-based influencers Jessica Mulroney and Sasha Exeter got into a very public showdown. It began when...
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    There is no Black Panther in Brazil
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    There is no Black Panther in Brazil

    Modele Kuforiji When the film Black Panther was released in Brazil in 2018, Afro-Brazilians garbed in bright African prints gathered to...
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    “LET ME GIVE YOU PERSONAL ATTENTION”:The Multisensorial Experience of ASMR as Feminized Digital Care
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 8 min

    “LET ME GIVE YOU PERSONAL ATTENTION”:The Multisensorial Experience of ASMR as Feminized Digital Care

    Emilly Renaud ASMRtists claim ASMR videos help audiences with anxiety, stress, depression, and insomnia, all serious mental health issues...
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    Beyond Food Aesthetics: Food Blogging and the Production of Authorial and Entrepreneurial Selves
    Body Online Lab
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 8 min

    Beyond Food Aesthetics: Food Blogging and the Production of Authorial and Entrepreneurial Selves

    Tyentyen Chen AAA/CASCA Presentation Writeup This paper was inspired by my desire to understand the rise of trendy food aesthetics in...
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    Digital Activism and Socially Conscious Online Entrepreneurship Amongst the #WitchesOfInstagram
    Body Online Lab
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 15 min

    Digital Activism and Socially Conscious Online Entrepreneurship Amongst the #WitchesOfInstagram

    Jaya Singh
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    Blackface in the Digital Era
    Body Online Lab
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 9 min

    Blackface in the Digital Era

    Yasmine Hassen
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    More than 'What's Your Sign?': Queering Astrology in the Digital Age
    Body Online Lab
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 7 min

    More than 'What's Your Sign?': Queering Astrology in the Digital Age

    Brooke Iwan
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    Digital Pedagogies – Experimentation as Method in the Digital Humanities
    Body Online Lab
    • Apr 11, 2020
    • 10 min

    Digital Pedagogies – Experimentation as Method in the Digital Humanities

    Nick Smith In this paper I’d like to think through some of the overlaps between digital anthropology, experimental methods, and pedagogy....
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    Microblogging and Mental Health:Affect, Personhood, and the Politics of Care on Tumblr
    Body Online Lab
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    Microblogging and Mental Health: Affect, Personhood, and the Politics of Care on Tumblr

    Katrina Elmsley
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    #Enhancement
    Body Online Lab
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    #Enhancement

    Samara Blakeney
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    Hashtags and the Materialization of Identity
    Body Online Lab
    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    Hashtags and the Materialization of Identity

    Modele Kuforiji
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