Linda Tirado

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Linda Tirado (* in Michigan ) is an American writer, freelance photographer, and activist. She was originally best known for a text contribution on the realities of life of people in working poverty in 2013. This went viral on the Internet and was later published by The Huffington Post , Forbes and The Nation . After her book Hand to Mouth: Living was published in Bootstrap America in 2014 , she was selected as one of the BBC 100 Women that same year .

Life

Tirado was born in Michigan in - according to her own statements, "not fantastic" - family circumstances and raised by her grandparents since she was a child. These also enabled her to attend better schools, but she dropped out of college and took jobs for political campaigns. She was married to a Marine and has two children. She worked in various low-wage jobs and temporarily lived in a trailer . Her experiences of poverty date back to her first pregnancy; later, with family support, she succeeded in stabilizing her living situation.

When the question was asked in an online forum why poor people often live self-destructively, Tirado wrote the essay Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts (German: Why I make terrible decisions, or: Poverty thoughts ), in which she describes her Described experiences with their poverty. The article received widespread attention and was reprinted by mainstream media. Encouraged to write down her experiences in a book, she raised around $ 60,000 for this purpose in a crowdfunding campaign. The book was published in 2014 by GP Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Books . The following years were marked by this success, she continued to campaign against poverty and was invited to international lectures and interviews.

She countered allegations that her text was inauthentic or even a hoax by showing her welfare receipts to the Washington Post and showing her rotten teeth on YouTube.

During the George Floyd protests in May 2020, which she documented as a photographer in Minneapolis , she was hit by a police rubber bullet and lost an eye.

Publications

  • Hand to mouth: living in bootstrap America . GP Putnam's Sons, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-399-17198-7 .
  • Chrissy Stroop, Lauren O'Neal (Eds.): Empty the pews: stories of leaving the church . Indianapolis, IN 2019, ISBN 978-1-946093-07-3 (essay in anthology).

Web links

  • Rachel Cooke: Linda Tirado: 'It was insane. I got 20,000 emails in a week ' . In: The Observer . September 21, 2014, ISSN  0029-7712 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 4, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hermione Hoby: The truth about being poor: Linda Tirado interview . October 12, 2014, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed June 4, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b Frances Robles: A Reporter's Cry on Live TV: 'I'm Getting Shot! I'm Getting Shot! ' In: The New York Times . May 30, 2020, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 4, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts. Retrieved June 4, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ Who are the 100 Women 2014? In: BBC News . October 26, 2014 ( bbc.com [accessed June 4, 2020]).
  5. ^ A b c Michelle Goldberg: Linda Tirado Is Not a Hoax . 11 December 2013, ISSN  0027 to 8378 ( thenation.com [Retrieved on June 4, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Five years, exactly. Hell of a world. In: patreon.com. November 28, 2018, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Ryan Grim: Is This What You Want? Author Of Viral Poverty Piece Takes Out Teeth To Prove Her Story. December 4, 2013, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Erica Zingher: Violence against journalists: inside; reporters: inside are increasingly attacked by the police in the USA. Rubber bullets and pepper spray are used against them . In: taz, the daily newspaper . Berlin June 2, 2020, p. 18 .
personal data
SURNAME Tirado, Linda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, photographer and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan