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:
- Inspiration Porn: How “Feel-Good” Imagery Demeans the Disabled Community and Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes
- 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?
- Five things I learned from The Locust Effect
- Poverty porn in India in the times of the Covid outbreak
- Poverty porn sells, but it isn’t helping the poor
- The academic backgrounds of the world’s most powerful CEOs
- 23 Incredible CEO Statistics (Source: CreditDonkey)
Posts:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/motivation/comments/eslswk/she_is_the_fighter_when_life_sucks/
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-XnrpnPkQ/?igshid=18gblgpg1f6qx
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CHf2ZQlpyXz/?igshid=me9900iq7uo9
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CH2pDMFHUHh/?igshid=1mqfgbj7jhtby
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGslgjpKr2/?igshid=12effwdqr2vg5
Credits:
Music Part 1:
- Electric Dreams by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
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* Signal To Noise by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
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Music Part 2:
- Triomphe by Peyruis https://soundcloud.com/peyruis
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Music Part 3:
- Tropics by tubebackr https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr
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