AP, Least Clinical Social Worker
@apspoth.bsky.social
they/them. critical (of) social work. PhD student. at the intersection of Mad studies, trans studies, and abolition. allergic to most social work discourse. not professional advice.
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The university can’t be neutral. The university has never been a neutral place. Let’s pop that balloon right away. Refuse that bad fiction of the western university. It has been the site for the production of tremendous harm through “knowledge”.
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The university can’t be neutral. The university has never been a neutral place. Let’s pop that balloon right away. Refuse that bad fiction of the western university. It has been the site for the production of tremendous harm through “knowledge”.
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"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️
Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.
www.teenvogue.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️
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Kids are people, man.
While it’s important for the law to protect them in developmentally appropriate ways, it’s absolutely essential that the law recognizes the agency and autonomy of minors.
While it’s important for the law to protect them in developmentally appropriate ways, it’s absolutely essential that the law recognizes the agency and autonomy of minors.
January 5, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Kids are people, man.
While it’s important for the law to protect them in developmentally appropriate ways, it’s absolutely essential that the law recognizes the agency and autonomy of minors.
While it’s important for the law to protect them in developmentally appropriate ways, it’s absolutely essential that the law recognizes the agency and autonomy of minors.
96 pages and 6 footnotes later, comps are done. I will celebrate by……writing a lecture for class tomorrow and trying to forget about how bad those 96 pages are.
October 9, 2023 at 6:09 AM
96 pages and 6 footnotes later, comps are done. I will celebrate by……writing a lecture for class tomorrow and trying to forget about how bad those 96 pages are.
I’m taking my comprehensive exams this week, so if you see me here yell at me to go write instead 🫠
October 2, 2023 at 1:42 AM
I’m taking my comprehensive exams this week, so if you see me here yell at me to go write instead 🫠
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Roberts:
'Hope is something we have to practice...
Abolition is a horizon that we must continually struggle toward because we can’t accept the current suffering perpetrated by the carceral state ... because we are committed to hoping for a more caring and humane world.'
truthout.org/articles/dor...
'Hope is something we have to practice...
Abolition is a horizon that we must continually struggle toward because we can’t accept the current suffering perpetrated by the carceral state ... because we are committed to hoping for a more caring and humane world.'
truthout.org/articles/dor...
Dorothy Roberts Lays Out a Damning Exposé of Medical Racism and “Child Welfare”
Scholar Dorothy Roberts exposes effects of anti-Black mythmaking and calls for an end to the family policing system.
truthout.org
September 30, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Roberts:
'Hope is something we have to practice...
Abolition is a horizon that we must continually struggle toward because we can’t accept the current suffering perpetrated by the carceral state ... because we are committed to hoping for a more caring and humane world.'
truthout.org/articles/dor...
'Hope is something we have to practice...
Abolition is a horizon that we must continually struggle toward because we can’t accept the current suffering perpetrated by the carceral state ... because we are committed to hoping for a more caring and humane world.'
truthout.org/articles/dor...
So amped for this publication!!
I’m so grateful to Melanie (who I don’t think is here yet?) for bringing us all together.
This paper feels risky, and necessary. It hopes to answer the question of whether — and if so, how — SW education can respond to anti-CRT and anti-trans legislation.
I’m so grateful to Melanie (who I don’t think is here yet?) for bringing us all together.
This paper feels risky, and necessary. It hopes to answer the question of whether — and if so, how — SW education can respond to anti-CRT and anti-trans legislation.
NEW PUBLICATION! Out today from "Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work."
Free Download: apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw/article...
Free Download: apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw/article...
September 29, 2023 at 6:32 PM
So amped for this publication!!
I’m so grateful to Melanie (who I don’t think is here yet?) for bringing us all together.
This paper feels risky, and necessary. It hopes to answer the question of whether — and if so, how — SW education can respond to anti-CRT and anti-trans legislation.
I’m so grateful to Melanie (who I don’t think is here yet?) for bringing us all together.
This paper feels risky, and necessary. It hopes to answer the question of whether — and if so, how — SW education can respond to anti-CRT and anti-trans legislation.
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Can u pick me up? I’m doing autoethnography again (making memes)
September 22, 2023 at 11:41 AM
Can u pick me up? I’m doing autoethnography again (making memes)
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A priori is when it fits with your priors and a posteriori is when it fits with your poasts
September 1, 2023 at 6:31 PM
A priori is when it fits with your priors and a posteriori is when it fits with your poasts