To browse Academia. With a Tumblr devoted to this subgroup of Tinder users, and mainstream media outlets including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, and the feminist blog Jezebel following this story, Humanitarians of Tinder evoke dialogue about the intersections of sexiness and racialized benevolence. This article takes seriously Humanitarians of Tinder to think through the connections between social media hook-ups, racial affect, feminist studies humanitarianism, and racisms in development.
It asks: why do people use humanitarian photos to generate hook-ups on social media? This article will investigate the phenomenon of the Humanitarians of Tinder in order to understand its representations of NorthโSouth relations from the photographs themselves and from the debates held around them in new media and old.
Critical development studies, media studies and sociology will provide an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to understand the moral panic that these Tinder humanitarians have created through posting private photographs of humanitarian performances to increase their personal desirability. This travel trend is largely comprised of white, middle-class people. There is a tangible feeling that the racialized Other is being used to advertise for and promote the photo subject's personality.
This act of consumption has deep roots in racist and colonial history. The website's potential as a disruptive media pedagogy is also discussed.
Barbie Saviours is a satirical Instagram account and linked Facebook page that depict white western Barbies volunteering in Africa with the bio, 'Jesus. Two worlds. One love. Not qualified. It's not about me.. Drawing on emerging theories of feminist political economy, we address the growing backlash against volunteer tourism in the popular media and argue that critiques against these images reflect an anti-hegemonic project that highlights the role of sentimental colonialism in contemporary forms of international popular humanitarianism.
