Ceema Samimi, MSSW, MPA, PhD (they/them)
@ceemantics.bsky.social
Left Twitter in 2022, checking this out now. Assistant Professor, teaching in #socialwork and #youthstudies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Circle keeper, cat and dog parent, coffee lover, abolitionist. I study youth power. 🌈♊🏴💚🤍❤️
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Every conference needs therapy llamas. This is Pickle. He was grumpy.
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Every conference needs therapy llamas. This is Pickle. He was grumpy.
If you are a CRT scholar, a school discipline researcher, a restorative practitioner, or someone who geeks out on theory... please check out my paper! link.growkudos.com/1exkinf80lc
There are still more black boys in the office: educators’ perspectives on racial discipline disparities after restorative justice implementation
Even when restorative practices don't make racial disparities go away.
link.growkudos.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If you are a CRT scholar, a school discipline researcher, a restorative practitioner, or someone who geeks out on theory... please check out my paper! link.growkudos.com/1exkinf80lc
APHA and…Sage? I’ll take it. Where are you, Social Work? Silence, as usual. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...
#AcademicSky #SocialWork
#AcademicSky #SocialWork
At 11th hour, judge blocks Trump’s pause on federal funding
The higher education community faced an "enormous amount of confusion" in the wake of an OMB directive aimed at ensuring programs adhere to recent executive orders.
www.highereddive.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
APHA and…Sage? I’ll take it. Where are you, Social Work? Silence, as usual. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...
#AcademicSky #SocialWork
#AcademicSky #SocialWork
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I woke up thinking how I might continue to center hope, continue to move towards liberation. While I’m not sure of the answers I do know that we are in this together.
Join the social work activist collective in Jan 30th to begin to build together.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SWACJan25
Join the social work activist collective in Jan 30th to begin to build together.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SWACJan25
January 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I woke up thinking how I might continue to center hope, continue to move towards liberation. While I’m not sure of the answers I do know that we are in this together.
Join the social work activist collective in Jan 30th to begin to build together.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SWACJan25
Join the social work activist collective in Jan 30th to begin to build together.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SWACJan25
Oh, Seattle 💜💜💜
January 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Oh, Seattle 💜💜💜
I was referred to as an “elder”today. This is the second time. 👀
January 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I was referred to as an “elder”today. This is the second time. 👀
@sluggodoug.bsky.social I’m on a mission to watch ALL the zombie movies. Night of the Comet is in top 10, possibly top 5.
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
@sluggodoug.bsky.social I’m on a mission to watch ALL the zombie movies. Night of the Comet is in top 10, possibly top 5.
Excited to finally share the class site for the Abolition and Responses to Harm for Social Work Practice. Check out the resources and add your own. This is the class I will be presenting on @SSWR in a few weeks. #abolition #OER #socialwork
sites.google.com/umn.edu/swab...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/swab...
Abolition and Responses to Harm for Social Work Practice
This is the web site for Ceema Samimi's course "Abolition and Responses to Harm for Social Work Practice," taught in Spring 2023 at the University of Minnesota. You are free to adapt, share, and redis...
sites.google.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Excited to finally share the class site for the Abolition and Responses to Harm for Social Work Practice. Check out the resources and add your own. This is the class I will be presenting on @SSWR in a few weeks. #abolition #OER #socialwork
sites.google.com/umn.edu/swab...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/swab...
Turned in my grades on Monday (yay!) and got a chest infection Wednesday (boo!). I’ve trained my body well in “holding on” and then paying the price. #disabled #academicchatter #disabilityvisibility
December 27, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Turned in my grades on Monday (yay!) and got a chest infection Wednesday (boo!). I’ve trained my body well in “holding on” and then paying the price. #disabled #academicchatter #disabilityvisibility
Working today with the assistance of my fluff crew
December 22, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Working today with the assistance of my fluff crew
As we prepare for a new year and new challenges with the political and social landscape, I thought I'd share this paper I wrote a few years ago. Working for social justice is about more than self-care.
link.growkudos.com/1eltsw8kbnk
link.growkudos.com/1eltsw8kbnk
December 22, 2024 at 6:34 AM
As we prepare for a new year and new challenges with the political and social landscape, I thought I'd share this paper I wrote a few years ago. Working for social justice is about more than self-care.
link.growkudos.com/1eltsw8kbnk
link.growkudos.com/1eltsw8kbnk
Do people still write blogs? Do people still read blogs? Should I start a blog?
December 15, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Do people still write blogs? Do people still read blogs? Should I start a blog?
I try to make my feedback worth reading.
December 6, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I try to make my feedback worth reading.
Lasted pub, dm if you want to read and don’t have institutional access.
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Lasted pub, dm if you want to read and don’t have institutional access.
Don we now our gay apparel!
December 3, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Don we now our gay apparel!
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Who’s attending #SSWR2025? 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Join this Starter Pack and let’s connect and hang out in Seattle!
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Please follow and repost! 🔁
#Socialwork #Socialwelfare #SSWR
#SSWR2025 #Seattle #AcademicConference
Join this Starter Pack and let’s connect and hang out in Seattle!
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Please follow and repost! 🔁
#Socialwork #Socialwelfare #SSWR
#SSWR2025 #Seattle #AcademicConference
November 29, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Who’s attending #SSWR2025? 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Join this Starter Pack and let’s connect and hang out in Seattle!
go.bsky.app/JVoajsW
Please follow and repost! 🔁
#Socialwork #Socialwelfare #SSWR
#SSWR2025 #Seattle #AcademicConference
Join this Starter Pack and let’s connect and hang out in Seattle!
go.bsky.app/JVoajsW
Please follow and repost! 🔁
#Socialwork #Socialwelfare #SSWR
#SSWR2025 #Seattle #AcademicConference
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Every academic right now
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Every academic right now
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Reposted by Ceema Samimi, MSSW, MPA, PhD (they/them)
Statistical citizenship is a concept that is used to describe the political effects of what is counted—or not counted.
In this case, refusing to investigate a these deaths denies the statistical citizenship of the victims of this policy regime.
In this case, refusing to investigate a these deaths denies the statistical citizenship of the victims of this policy regime.
"If women are dying because of delays, and we have this huge new policy in Texas that affects their lives, why would we skip over those years?” said one board member. "I'm worried."
'Worried': Experts concerned as Texas board declines to investigate abortion ban deaths
The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee revealed this week that it will not be reviewing any cases that occurred over the last two years — which just happen to be the years when Te...
www.rawstory.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Statistical citizenship is a concept that is used to describe the political effects of what is counted—or not counted.
In this case, refusing to investigate a these deaths denies the statistical citizenship of the victims of this policy regime.
In this case, refusing to investigate a these deaths denies the statistical citizenship of the victims of this policy regime.
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One of my big efforts in reshaping how we teach our diagnosis and assessment MSW course is to weave scholarship that incorporates lived experience, Mad/Crip Theory and other Critical Theories, and Epistemic Justice work throughout the course. Clinicians' aren't the only or even best experts on this.
I'm not always down with the people doing psychoanalysis in that super academic theoretical way in their writing because it seems like they go off into flights of romanticized fancy about madness & see it as abstraction but are rarely listening to mad people. @coolhand.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 PM
One of my big efforts in reshaping how we teach our diagnosis and assessment MSW course is to weave scholarship that incorporates lived experience, Mad/Crip Theory and other Critical Theories, and Epistemic Justice work throughout the course. Clinicians' aren't the only or even best experts on this.
Interested in child and #youth wellbeing, #policy, and #research? Apply for the LEAH fellowship in our Department of Pediatrics! #SocialWork #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
med.umn.edu/pediatrics/e...
med.umn.edu/pediatrics/e...
Adolescent Health & Primary Care Research Fellowships
med.umn.edu
November 26, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Interested in child and #youth wellbeing, #policy, and #research? Apply for the LEAH fellowship in our Department of Pediatrics! #SocialWork #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
med.umn.edu/pediatrics/e...
med.umn.edu/pediatrics/e...
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* Calling all social work educators who are grappling with tough questions about how to support their students while teaching social welfare policy and social change courses in 2025. *
November 25, 2024 at 7:47 PM
* Calling all social work educators who are grappling with tough questions about how to support their students while teaching social welfare policy and social change courses in 2025. *
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1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.
As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
November 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM
1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.
As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.
And so it begins…
November 26, 2024 at 2:32 PM
And so it begins…