Inspirational Poverty Porn

CHIMU Talks

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)

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

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