Blog Action Day 2008: Understanding Poverty

Often my own response to poverty--my response to seeing a person who's homeless or begging or sleeping on cardboard--is to avert my eyes. This reaction is a complex one which involves judgment and respect and fear and shame. Rather than processing what I've witnessed, I often move mentally a.s.a.p. to an new idea. Pretty much any idea will do.

The exhibit currently showing at DiverseWorks in Houston is called Understanding Poverty.  With photography by Ben Tecumseh Desoto and text by Ann Walton Sieber, the exhibit provides us a way to examine our reactions to poverty in a safe space so that we do in fact understand better. Understanding poverty will not solve the problem but it's a smart place to start.

What:

Understanding Poverty
Photographs by Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Words by Ann Walton Sieber
Curated by Clint Willour
Works by Sarah Whatley Ayers & Forrest Prince

Where:

DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

When:

September 19 - November 1, 2008

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Special Request:

If you blogged about poverty for Blog Action Day 2008, would you please leave the link so that we can read your post?  Thanks!

Comments

[Dana]

Here's my Blog Action Day post.

[Debra]

http://themamatoo.blogspot.com/

[Robin Reagler]

Here's the WITS post for Blog Action Day:

http://witsblog.org/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008/

[cake]

wish i was in town to see that show.
here is my blog action day post:

http://whistlingleafblower.blogspot.com
/2008/10/poverty-blog-action-day.html

[stidmama]

Yep. I blogged about it. :-)

[RaJen]

don't you just love DiverseWorks?

[Kirsten]

Yep, I blogged about it too:http://kayoz.typepad.com/blog/2008/10/enoughness.html

[Kdahlface]

Here's my Blog Action Day post:

http://www.fruitinmydessert.com/my_weblog/2008/10/blog-action-day-poverty.html