Reviving Radical Social Work in Collapse
As I study to become a social worker, I find myself questioning what this profession will look like post-COVID. It is a surreal time to enter the field, as most agencies are unclear on how to best serve clients from a distance or help process the collective trauma of experiencing a pandemic (particularly for people who are under-resourced and oppressed).
coronavirus, climate change and community care
If our response to the coronavirus would be to support collective strategies for our shared safety and wellness, as well as remembering to wash hands, cough into our sleeves, and support our immune systems, as well as remembering to care for those of us whose bodies are more vulnerable to viral attack, then perhaps this would be another time when, as a species, our evolution was changed as a result of the life of a virus? Perhaps it would shift how we are steamrolling towards climate collapse? I don’t know how to get from where we are to the place we can’t yet imagine, but I do know that any practice that moves at the pace of relationship, at the speed of trust, and at the centered pace of those who are most vulnerable, is a pace that won’t kill some of us to save others of us along the way.
Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself
Near-term social collapse IS imminent due to the global climate crisis and ecocide resulting from capitalism, imperialism, racism, and patriarchy (the kyriarchy). It’s already happening, yet mainstream psychology and most therapists I know of, are not developing the language and skills to help people live with climate truth and organize towards any meaningful revolution.