The Backyard Chicken Glamour Campaign

Culture Study Podcast

Anne Helen Petersen

Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Arts

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Tove Danovich is the person to talk to about raising backyard chickens — at least if you want to talk about the culture and discourse swirling around raising backyard chickens. When the current administration started messaging that everyone should consider countering rising egg prices by raising some chickens in their backyard, Tove and I wanted to do an episode about what people are really talking about when they talk about getting backyard chickens. This is an episode about chickens, in other words, but it’s actually an episode about ‘wellness,’ regulation, MAHA, homesteading, the very real joy of being a steward to animals, and so much more. If this doesn’t immediately strike you as your thing, I hope you’ll give this nuanced discussion a chance.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anne. Just wanted to give you a heads up on the episodes we have planned so you can get all of your questions in.
0:06.1	We have two episodes related to parenting. Yes, two. One, about U.S. parenting trends. So, like,
0:12.1	especially anything that's happening like right now that you're noticing happening in your, like, Facebook parenting groups, stuff that's happening in schools.
0:19.5	Like, what seems weird, what seems like a
0:22.4	good shift, like anywhere you want to take that. And then the other is about the intersection of
0:27.4	technology and parenting. And this is a historical look. It's going to be really interesting.
0:32.0	But so anything that you see in your life or that you have noticed in terms of a change in how technology and parenting intersect.
0:40.0	We're going to do another on how private equity ruins everything, and I know that sounds kind of
0:44.4	outside of our wheelhouse, but we need your questions to give it that special culture study flavor.
0:50.4	And then for our continuing series on Culture of Place, we're going to talk Montana culture with the great Chris LaTray and Texas culture with Texas native Sam Sanders.
1:01.4	We're also working on an episode about church camp, and the questions that have come in so far are so juicy.
1:07.1	As a former church camper, I have a lot to talk about. I cannot wait.
1:11.2	Finally, we're tossing around the idea of a Katie Perry episode, but we need really good questions to make this one work.
1:16.5	So let us know if you have thoughts there.
1:18.4	As always, you can submit your questions for episodes and for the Ask and Anything segment at tiny URL.com slash culture study pod.
1:27.6	Okay, thanks. And on culture study pod. Okay, thanks.
1:28.4	And on with the show.
1:35.2	This is the culture study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.
1:39.3	And I'm Tova Danovich, the author of the book Under the Henfluence.
1:43.5	I'm a freelance journalist, and I also run the substack a little detour.
1:48.5	Can we start by talking about your chickens and how you got into them? Yeah. So I think it was 2018. I got chickens. I left New York to move to Portland, Oregon, and it was the top of my list.
2:03.9	I remember sitting on the subway with friends, and they were like, what are you most excited
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