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! ❤️🤍💙
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
“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 ❤️🤍💙
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 ❤️🩹🤍💙
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 ❤️🩹🤍💙 🥹🥹🥹
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
These are some of my favorite books with kind, complex trans characters. If you don’t know any #trans folks, consider reading to get a sense of the community. (Sorry @danifinnwrites.bsky.social - you weren’t on my radar before, but you are now! And on the “to-read” list you go! 💕)
January 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
These are some of my favorite books with kind, complex trans characters. If you don’t know any #trans folks, consider reading to get a sense of the community. (Sorry @danifinnwrites.bsky.social - you weren’t on my radar before, but you are now! And on the “to-read” list you go! 💕)
If this face ain’t a whole dang mood.
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If this face ain’t a whole dang mood.
What an icon. No notes 📝
January 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What an icon. No notes 📝
I lived in rural Alaska for 1.5 yrs, pouring my heart into my 1st post-grad job as a therapist. Don’t remember many thank yous (which is fine!) But when I had to move suddenly in 2015, I was overwhelmed by the stories I rec’d of my impact there. We never know how many lives we touch! 💕
December 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I lived in rural Alaska for 1.5 yrs, pouring my heart into my 1st post-grad job as a therapist. Don’t remember many thank yous (which is fine!) But when I had to move suddenly in 2015, I was overwhelmed by the stories I rec’d of my impact there. We never know how many lives we touch! 💕
*Finishes a one page doc I’ve been meaning to do for a week* …
November 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
*Finishes a one page doc I’ve been meaning to do for a week* …
Happy Monday! You can do the things! :D
November 18, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Happy Monday! You can do the things! :D
I thought it was #SweaterWeather so I wore one this AM to help decorate our department’s parade float. Alas, it was not! So: wardrobe change! This shirt still bumps our school colors & has a message near and dear to my nerdy heart! 💜🦁💛
September 30, 2023 at 4:14 PM
I thought it was #SweaterWeather so I wore one this AM to help decorate our department’s parade float. Alas, it was not! So: wardrobe change! This shirt still bumps our school colors & has a message near and dear to my nerdy heart! 💜🦁💛