Allison Berkowitz
@socialworkitout.bsky.social
Social Worker 🙋🏻♀️ Advocate 💪🏼 Educator 🍎 Researcher 🔎 Policy Nerd 🤓 Jewish ✡️
AuDHD 🧠 Queer 🏳️🌈 Certified Silly Goose 🦆
AuDHD 🧠 Queer 🏳️🌈 Certified Silly Goose 🦆
Hello from #NoKingsDay in Florence, Alabama! ❤️🤍💙
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hello from #NoKingsDay in Florence, Alabama! ❤️🤍💙
Btdubs, I found her! & She’s agreed to have a chat with me for my social work policy students. She noted wanting to hit on being a therapist who believes in the importance of doing macro work too. I love that for us! #MacroSW #socialwork 💕 @naswny.bsky.social
Can any of you help me connect with this icon (NY social worker, @emilyjaynef.bsky.social)? When things calm down a bit, I want to see if she’d let me interview her for my social work students on bravery (& how small acts of bravery can help others be brave), re: policy advocacy. Thanks! #macroSW
May 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Btdubs, I found her! & She’s agreed to have a chat with me for my social work policy students. She noted wanting to hit on being a therapist who believes in the importance of doing macro work too. I love that for us! #MacroSW #socialwork 💕 @naswny.bsky.social
Glad Alireza Doroudi is one step closer to leaving a detention center, but sad at Alabama’s loss. And for what? The U.S. is losing so many brilliant minds to other countries. Our science will suffer, as will our nation as we drift away from our previous role as leaders in innovation. #ALpolitics
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Glad Alireza Doroudi is one step closer to leaving a detention center, but sad at Alabama’s loss. And for what? The U.S. is losing so many brilliant minds to other countries. Our science will suffer, as will our nation as we drift away from our previous role as leaders in innovation. #ALpolitics
Can any of you help me connect with this icon (NY social worker, @emilyjaynef.bsky.social)? When things calm down a bit, I want to see if she’d let me interview her for my social work students on bravery (& how small acts of bravery can help others be brave), re: policy advocacy. Thanks! #macroSW
May 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Can any of you help me connect with this icon (NY social worker, @emilyjaynef.bsky.social)? When things calm down a bit, I want to see if she’d let me interview her for my social work students on bravery (& how small acts of bravery can help others be brave), re: policy advocacy. Thanks! #macroSW
“…be compassionate and love people … basically, that’s all Star Wars is” -George Lucas to Charlie Rose, 2014. #MayThe4th #StarWarsDay
May 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“…be compassionate and love people … basically, that’s all Star Wars is” -George Lucas to Charlie Rose, 2014. #MayThe4th #StarWarsDay
April 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Dissent is Patriotic” was the vibe at #HandsOff2025 in Florence, Alabama today ❤️🤍💙 #ALpolitics
April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Dissent is Patriotic” was the vibe at #HandsOff2025 in Florence, Alabama today ❤️🤍💙 #ALpolitics
Hello from #HandsOff2025 in Florence, Alabama ❤️🤍💙
April 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Hello from #HandsOff2025 in Florence, Alabama ❤️🤍💙
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
“When a definition of antisemitism includes features that would mark many American Jews as antisemites, the problem is the definition, not the Jews.”
inaugural collab with the wonderful @socialworkitout.bsky.social—please read the rest here:
www.al.com/politics/202...
inaugural collab with the wonderful @socialworkitout.bsky.social—please read the rest here:
www.al.com/politics/202...
March 31, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“When a definition of antisemitism includes features that would mark many American Jews as antisemites, the problem is the definition, not the Jews.”
inaugural collab with the wonderful @socialworkitout.bsky.social—please read the rest here:
www.al.com/politics/202...
inaugural collab with the wonderful @socialworkitout.bsky.social—please read the rest here:
www.al.com/politics/202...
Hate knowing the world has to turn its back on us (🇺🇸), but proud of people for doing what they need to do. I hope they know how many of us don’t want this & are actively fighting back. But until we can fix this, don’t let our country’s officials push you around ❤️🩹🤍💙
March 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hate knowing the world has to turn its back on us (🇺🇸), but proud of people for doing what they need to do. I hope they know how many of us don’t want this & are actively fighting back. But until we can fix this, don’t let our country’s officials push you around ❤️🩹🤍💙
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
SPOTTED:
At House Oversight Committee hearing on PBS .. amid calls to defund public broadcasting
At House Oversight Committee hearing on PBS .. amid calls to defund public broadcasting
March 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
SPOTTED:
At House Oversight Committee hearing on PBS .. amid calls to defund public broadcasting
At House Oversight Committee hearing on PBS .. amid calls to defund public broadcasting
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
Hmm, maybe I should run against the Republican Trump supporter in the General Assembly who represents me.
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
In light of Mahmoud Khalil, some notes from this Pro-🇵🇸, 🇺🇸 Jew:
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Pro-Hamas
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Anti-Jew
● Only 21% of Palestinians rn (& likely few 🇵🇸-advocates) support Hamas
● 47,000 Palestinians killed since 2023
● Awful conditions in Gaza
● This is why ppl rally for 🇵🇸 & decry 🇮🇱 rn
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Pro-Hamas
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Anti-Jew
● Only 21% of Palestinians rn (& likely few 🇵🇸-advocates) support Hamas
● 47,000 Palestinians killed since 2023
● Awful conditions in Gaza
● This is why ppl rally for 🇵🇸 & decry 🇮🇱 rn
March 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In light of Mahmoud Khalil, some notes from this Pro-🇵🇸, 🇺🇸 Jew:
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Pro-Hamas
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Anti-Jew
● Only 21% of Palestinians rn (& likely few 🇵🇸-advocates) support Hamas
● 47,000 Palestinians killed since 2023
● Awful conditions in Gaza
● This is why ppl rally for 🇵🇸 & decry 🇮🇱 rn
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Pro-Hamas
● Pro-Palestine ≠ Anti-Jew
● Only 21% of Palestinians rn (& likely few 🇵🇸-advocates) support Hamas
● 47,000 Palestinians killed since 2023
● Awful conditions in Gaza
● This is why ppl rally for 🇵🇸 & decry 🇮🇱 rn
Just met fellow “Jewish and moved to Alabama from up north” friend, @leahanelson.bsky.social, IRL for the first time (still meeting people I’ve worked with virtually for years because of covid!) Total blast! 💕
March 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Just met fellow “Jewish and moved to Alabama from up north” friend, @leahanelson.bsky.social, IRL for the first time (still meeting people I’ve worked with virtually for years because of covid!) Total blast! 💕
What a treat to have Dr. Estreet, @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social CEO, here in Montgomery, Alabama giving our Advocacy Day keynote presentation! #socialworkmonth
March 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What a treat to have Dr. Estreet, @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social CEO, here in Montgomery, Alabama giving our Advocacy Day keynote presentation! #socialworkmonth
Was using @5calls.org to contact my reps (introvert style, leaving VMs after hours). The app put a call through to Tuberville and the number was still saved in my phone as @dougjones.bsky.social!!!! It made me all dreamy and nostalgic. If only, phone. If only 💭🌙💭
February 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Was using @5calls.org to contact my reps (introvert style, leaving VMs after hours). The app put a call through to Tuberville and the number was still saved in my phone as @dougjones.bsky.social!!!! It made me all dreamy and nostalgic. If only, phone. If only 💭🌙💭
Really digging new tv show “The Pitt”! Esp. love their portrayal of medical #socialwork. We’re not always shown in the best light, but actress Krystel V. McNeil’s social worker is calm, kind, logical, helpful. Not a miracle worker, not “a kid snatcher”, love it! 👍🏼 @hbomax.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Really digging new tv show “The Pitt”! Esp. love their portrayal of medical #socialwork. We’re not always shown in the best light, but actress Krystel V. McNeil’s social worker is calm, kind, logical, helpful. Not a miracle worker, not “a kid snatcher”, love it! 👍🏼 @hbomax.bsky.social
“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity … and do not let the ‘tragic spirit of despair’ overcome us when our country needs us the most.” -Governor @jbpritzker.bsky.social, 2/19/25 ❤️🩹🤍💙 🥹🥹🥹
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity … and do not let the ‘tragic spirit of despair’ overcome us when our country needs us the most.” -Governor @jbpritzker.bsky.social, 2/19/25 ❤️🩹🤍💙 🥹🥹🥹
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
Great news! The Alabama Maternal Health Care Act just passed the House. This is a huge step in reducing infant and maternal mortality. Thank you, Rep. Dubose for co-sponsoring and your support. #ForwardForFreedom #alpolitics
February 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Great news! The Alabama Maternal Health Care Act just passed the House. This is a huge step in reducing infant and maternal mortality. Thank you, Rep. Dubose for co-sponsoring and your support. #ForwardForFreedom #alpolitics
So hard to explain to students how good policy can be so slow and bad policy can be so fast. Baffling to me how people’s identities become supposed social issues. #ALpolitics
February 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So hard to explain to students how good policy can be so slow and bad policy can be so fast. Baffling to me how people’s identities become supposed social issues. #ALpolitics
Hubs & I met ten years ago today. He re-created our wedding cake 💕 #readingisresistance
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Hubs & I met ten years ago today. He re-created our wedding cake 💕 #readingisresistance
Reposted by Allison Berkowitz
Things are REALLY bad. But we need you. Do whatever you need to do to keep going. Maybe it's a news break or some knitting or a hot bath or a fancy cuppa or a walk in the sunshine. It won't fix the terrible things, but it might help you keep going. We need all of us. 💓 Don't give up. 🧶☕️
January 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Things are REALLY bad. But we need you. Do whatever you need to do to keep going. Maybe it's a news break or some knitting or a hot bath or a fancy cuppa or a walk in the sunshine. It won't fix the terrible things, but it might help you keep going. We need all of us. 💓 Don't give up. 🧶☕️