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The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
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The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
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The Shame Game
Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
Author: Mary O’Hara
About the Book
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain and America? For decades, poverty has been framed as the result of personal failings—“bad choices,” laziness, or irresponsibility—rather than the consequences of policy, structural inequality, and economic injustice.
In The Shame Game, award-winning journalist Mary O’Hara dismantles this toxic narrative. Drawing on her own lived experience of poverty and a two-year multi-platform initiative, she highlights how deeply these damaging stereotypes are embedded in the public imagination—and the devastating effects they have on those struggling financially. Most importantly, she amplifies the voices of people living in poverty, positioning them as the true experts in shaping solutions and rewriting the narrative.
Timely, urgent, and compassionate, this book calls for a fundamental shift in how we understand and talk about poverty.
Reviews
- “In The Shame Game, O’Hara dips into her own life to explore poverty and how it’s portrayed in the United States and Britain.” — Washington Post
- “Given the tsunami of economic insecurity unleashed by Covid-19, we have an unprecedented opportunity to further challenge the toxic narratives O’Hara so effectively skewers here.” — Prospect Magazine
- “An exceptional book...a must-read and so relevant to the times we are living in now.” — Nursing Times
- “The Shame Game is the book we need right now. Real stories, by people who have lived that story, smashing apart the divisive narratives around poverty that are so damaging to all of us.” — Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn
About the Author
Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, author, and producer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Mosaic Science, and other major outlets. She is the author of The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative (2020) and has dedicated her career to amplifying marginalized voices, challenging inequality, and reshaping the conversation about poverty and social justice.
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