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Inspirational Poverty Porn

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As we are still in quarantine, our whatsapps have been blowing up with inspirational posts and memes. Today we discuss why these posts are more sinister than they appear.

Sources:

  1. Inspiration Porn: How “Feel-Good” Imagery Demeans the Disabled Community and Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes
  2. What is Poverty Porn, and why is it such a problem? But more importantly… how can we be better? How can we still achieve charitable goals without objectifying suffering?
  3. Five things I learned from The Locust Effect
  4. Poverty porn in India in the times of the Covid outbreak
  5. Poverty porn sells, but it isn’t helping the poor
  6. The academic backgrounds of the world’s most powerful CEOs
  7. 23 Incredible CEO Statistics (Source: CreditDonkey)

    8. Posts:

    1. https://www.reddit.com/r/motivation/comments/eslswk/she_is_the_fighter_when_life_sucks/
    2. https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-XnrpnPkQ/?igshid=18gblgpg1f6qx
    3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHf2ZQlpyXz/?igshid=me9900iq7uo9
    4. https://www.instagram.com/p/CH2pDMFHUHh/?igshid=1mqfgbj7jhtby
    5. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGslgjpKr2/?igshid=12effwdqr2vg5


      6. Credits:

      Music Part 1: 

      • Electric Dreams by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
        • Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
        Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/al-electric-dreams
        Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/blzd3vzvQ8U
      • Signal To Noise by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
        • Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
        Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/signal-to-noise
        Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/of0Ei_T4isc 

        Music Part 2:

        • Triomphe by Peyruis https://soundcloud.com/peyruis
          • Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
          Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/al-triomphe
          Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/uKvMKgSFtEA

          Music Part 3:

          • Tropics by tubebackr https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr
            • Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0
            Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/al-tropics
            Music promoted by Audio Library
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