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Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
A photograph features a parade with people in the front holding up gold balloons that spell out “Disney” and those behind holding mouse-head–shaped balloons in rainbow colors.
essay / Popculture

What’s Behind the Backlash to Lightyear’s Animated Kiss?

Jamie E. Shenton
What do Twitter debates over Disney-Pixar's recent family film tell us about today’s parenting politics in the U.S.?
Members of a girls’ rugby team pose together with arms linked over each other’s shoulders, starting straight at the camera.
op-ed / Marketplace

Consumer Culture Won’t Lead to Body Positivity

Jamie E. Shenton
An anthropologist in the U.S., struggling with how the fashion industry shapes her daughter’s self-image, turns to insights about bodies and self-worth from her fieldwork with Indigenous Kichwa women in Ecuador.
essay / Material Culture

The Pussyhat’s Identity Crisis

Jamie E. Shenton
Critics maintain that the now iconic pink caps are too stereotyped and exclusionary. Can an inclusive symbol of women’s rights be found?
A mourner writes “Enough Is Enough” at a memorial near the Tree of Life Synagogue on Monday, October 29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
essay / Viewpoint

Issuing Trigger Warnings in an Age of Mass Shootings

Jamie E. Shenton
Once upon a time, the most important classroom warnings prepared students for potentially upsetting or traumatic content. Now they’re about bullets.