As of the writing of this essay, the Democratic presidential primary is underway and the Louisiana Legislative session will begin on March 9. I considered writing about the necessity of doing our civic duty to vote. While this is true, I decided to go one-step further in how we discuss civic duty. If I have learned anything in my time and from my colleagues at JSRI, it is that if silence is all they hear from the people, lawmakers will assume that we agree with them. In this time of hyper-political awareness, I want to remind all of us of our civil duty to practice corporeal politics- to be present in the actual processes of law and public policy creation.
