“ A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
Ah, activist tourism… Whether it’s in the local sphere or international, it’s just as terrible.
(via amydentata)
urgh I hate activist tourism so much
(my workplace seems to attract the kind of student volunteers who aspire to do this sort of thing. I needs must bite my tongue mightily while working, on a regular basis)
My school does this so much and it’s fucking annoying.
(via werthequeerkids)
