I love social work as much as I hate that it has to exist — and that it exists so imperfectly.

Happy social work month. May this whole-ass profession one day be a memory. Until then, I’ll hypocritically earn a DSW I guess 🏴

p.s. Screw NASW, they’re bootlickers 🐷

Image from: google, who knows

And because I dream for a better world: A world so damn good we aren’t needed anymore. A world where social workers & co. targeted the root causes of social issues SO WELL that they ceased existence.

Because I know social work’s neoliberal history of maintaining capitalist systems of have-nots & upholding the carceral state’s status quo via soft policing.

Social work is my lifeblood. My calling, my vocation. It’s the entire lens through which I view the world.

And? Equally confusing is that I want it to be abolished.

I hope to live to see social work dwindle into obsolescence, for two reasons:

And saying this ain’t saviorism — unless you agree with me that we are all each other’s salvation and saviors, and that I have too been saved countless times by social workers, therapists, helpers, loved ones, community…

group sessions, credit, grants & fundraisers to fund their services, learned their rights, learned how to advocate against people in power, lived another day and many days thereafter without killing themselves…

cell phones, clothes, showers, home care, transportation, other forms of insurance, a birth certificate, training, supervision, medical attention, a photo ID, a license, been visited in prison, met with lawyers, money in their pocket,

Little did I know that years later, I’d be the reason hundreds — actually, thousands — of people over the course of my career had: homes, healthcare, mental healthcare, food, food stamps, furniture, therapy, social security, jobs, attended school,

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i appreciate that ♥️♥️ thank you

aww thank you!! and do ittttttt 😆

a high compliment !!!!

oh my gawsh ty ♥️

hai

omg it happened again yesterday in NYC y’all 😂