Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
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“The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.”