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Sharing stories of poverty but not ‘poverty porn’

“The sight of a child so starved he’s too weak to cry… it’s enough to make the angels cry,” says Sally Struthers, strolling through a slum in an unidentified south Asian country. These Christian Children’s Fund ads, which ran for two decades, exemplify the ‘poverty porn’ trope still employed by many charities––a practice so ubiquitous […]

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Feb 21, 2023 by Tyler G Hall and Caroline Teti
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