A White colleague wanting to include Black and Brown skin in her lecture slides asked Starr Knight, MD, to pose for her. That’s just one microaggression of many that needs purposeful daily work to build #antioppressive #antiracist #EDs. #DEI https://bit.ly/3HXpavD

Today was one of those days where it was emphasised that so many of the challenges my clients face are systemic and made worse due to a lack of resources. It is frustrating because our society treats so many issues as problems for the individual rather than acknowledging the pressures that increased disconnection, cost-of-living pressures, and so many other social factors place on people.

#AntiOppressive #Counselling #Therapy #TherapistsConnect

Seeing a lot of people trotting out versions the often misattributed quote about trying the same thing and expecting different results.

As usual, XKCD has a relevant comic.

Apart from it being a trite cliche it is also ableist in terms of pathologising such behaviour. All kinds of people make choices that, when viewed from outside, seem pointless or flawed.

We can criticise behaviour but let's leave the ableist slurs out.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/insanity.png

#Ableist #AntiOppressive

Radical social work practice recognizes:

‼️Social problems do not reside with individuals‼️

✳️Instead, social problems are structural and failures of policy✳️

Radical social workers:

✔️Are challengers of the status quo.
✔️Meaningfully engage & collaborate with lived experience communities.
✔️Gather evidence & critically analyze.
✔️Advocate and strategize to bring about equitible policy change.

#SocialJustice #SocialWork #AntiOppressive #Activist #policy

One of my favourite #SocialWork podcasts is called: Doin' The Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change.

It is hosted by Shimon Cohen.

"We amplify folx doing #AntiRacist, #AntiOppressive, liberatory work. Racial, social, economic justice. #CommunityBased. Powerful thinkers and action-takers. Engagement in praxis.

We aim to elevate and provide counter-narratives to the dominant system. Learn together to enhance our practice.

Highly recommended!

https://dointhework.podbean.com/

People who use ableist and body shaming language to dunk on public figures are sending a message that they aren't allies to neurodivergent and people with body differences.

If someone is a shitty person, talk about their crappy beliefs, criticize their shitty behaviour. Using ableist slurs and body shaming language implies that those elements are the problem rather than the actual issue.

#SubToot #AntiOppressive #StopBodyShaming #Neurodiversity

Quote Calendar Day # 24

"When you disrupt the existing conditions and refuse to accept anything less than what you know you are worth, you start making those who oppress you so uncomfortable that they will try anything to discredit you."

- Malebo Sephodi (2017)

#Quotemas #Black #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiFascism #Authenticity #Disrupt #DisturbTheComfortable #ComfortTheDisturbed #Feminist

Quote Calendar Day # 20

"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."

- Susan Sontag

#Quotemas #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiRascist #Resist #IdealJustice #Community #Change #SocialJustice

Quote Calendar 📆

"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom..."

- Simone de Beauvoir (1947)

#Quotemas #Freedom #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #HumanRights

Quote Calendar Day # 17

"Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label."

- Irvin D. Yalom (1996)

#Quotemas #Counselling #Therapy #AntiOppressive #ExistentialPsychotherapy #Psychology #Compassion #MentalHealth

Quote Calendar Day # 16

"Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."

- Alice Miller (born Alicija Englard) (1979)

#Quotemas #CriticalThinking #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #AntiFascism

Shira Peltzman and Kelly Besser describe the work at UCLA Library to collectively craft #descriptive practices via a study group focused on an #antiOppressive approach to #discovery and #access.

https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/jcdl/vol2/iss1/2/

Quote Calendar Day # 15

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

- Karl Popper (1945)

#Quotemas #ParadoxOfTolerance #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #AntiFascism #Tolerance #Philosophy

Quote Calendar Day # 13

"My father always used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.' Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."

- Desmond Tutu

#Quotemas #Debate #Rhetoric #TyrannyOfTheMajority #Oppression #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist

Quote Calendar Day # 12

"All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us."

- Roxane Gay (2014)

#Quotemas #Injustice #AntiOppressive #Solidarity #IWillNotBeSilent #Feminism

Quote Calendar Day # 11

"Sometimes the smallest, softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions"

- Michael John Burkett, aka "Fat Mike" (2003)

#24DaysOfQuotes #Punk #Quote #Equality #Equity #TyrannyOfTheMajority #Democracy #Philosophy #Politics #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism

"It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project."

- Judith Butler (2004)

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#Quote #Feminism #Intersectional #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #Philosophy

Quote Calendar Day # 9

"What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some."

- Judith Butler (2004)

I found too many wonderful quotes from the incredible Judith Butler so I'm going to share a few. 1/-

#24DaysOfQuotes #Philosophy #AntiOppressive #Politics #Diversity #Gender #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Quote Calendar Day # 8

"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves..." 1/2

- Simone Weil

#24DaysOfQuotes #AntiFascism #AntiAuthoritarianism #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist

Quote Calendar Day # 7

"Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today."

-Malcolm X. (1965)

#24DaysOfQuotes #Black #Change #Equality #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #Compassion #Privilege