NEW from upEND's Josie Pickens in @hammerandhope.bsky.social . Read the full article here: hammerandhope.org/article/fami...
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These Organizers Are Challenging Family Policing With Collective Care
Louisiana ripped Corey Best’s son from his life two decades ago. Today Best is crafting new solutions to helping families in crisis.
![ABSTRACTQueer and trans peopleface cisgender and heterosexual bias, queer and transphobia, social exclusion, marginalization, and erasure from social work academia and national governments (globally). We conceptualize queering and transing social work within an abolitionist paradigm, positioning this as one antidote to epistemological and material violence. Illuminating a future of queer and trans social work rooted in a praxis of love, we position love as a crucial element of abolitionist queering and transing of the profession. We interrogate cisheteropatriarchal social work research methods, teaching approaches, and practice histories by queering, transing, and envisioning care that centers justice and equity for all people. Approaches include challenging binaries; decolonization as action; dismantling harmful systems; inclusive design; neuro-affirming and healing-centered approaches; queer and trans joy; transforming assessments, interventions, and organizations; critical consciousness; and building queer and trans futures. In that spirit, members of the [Sexuality | Relationships | Gender] Research Collective developed and wrote this paper by queering and transing academic writing processes to offer diverse and inclusive contributions. We hope the spirit of this parallel process inspires readers to engage with these ideas and practices.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4mwlhyr6e54nhg2uehlxhced/bafkreiea55h6o7muhazlvpjz2t3fatnwgwc7hum5nbuxe4lvx5f3evv54q)
