Happy Fat Tuesday to all our friends in New Orleans! Don’t do anything we wouldn’t do!
If you’re not in the middle of the revelry, enjoy these Mardi Gras posts from previous years:
- Where Mardi Gras Beads Come From
- Mardi Gras Krewes, Tourism, and Segregation (pictured)
- Race, Class, and Collective Mardi Gras Memory
- The Evolution of Beads for Boobs
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.