Easier Said Than Done: Critical Feminist Praxis in Social Work

In this Critical Feminist Roundtable, "Easier Said Than Done: Critical Feminist Praxis in Social Work," Affilia Editorial Board member and Guest Editor of this issue, Sarah Mountz speaks with authors Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Gita Mehrotra, Brianna Sorensen, and Jessica Saba about critical feminist praxis. This webinar was co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.
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Resources mentioned:
US Campaign for Palestinian Human Rights USCPR.org docs.google.co...
Jewish Voice for Peace www.jewishvoic...
Feminist Except for Palestine: doi.org/10.117...
Letter writing for Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian docs.google.co...
Feminists For a Free Palestine letter docs.google.co...
Sarah Mountz (Moderator)
Dr. Sarah Mountz is an Associate Professor at the University at Albany (SUNY)’s School of Social Welfare. Mountz’ research focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. As a healing-centered researcher, she uses participatory and arts-based research approaches to generate research that can inform anti-oppressive social work practice.
Read the Guest Editors' introduction to the Special Issue: doi.org/10.117...
Autumn Asher BlackDeer
Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer is a queer anti-colonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation and serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Her scholarship illuminates the impact of structural violence on American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Dr. BlackDeer centers Indigenous voices throughout her research by using quantitative approaches and big data as tools for responsible storytelling. Dr. BlackDeer is a racial equity scholar with an emphasis on Indigenous tribal sovereignty and is deeply committed to furthering anti-colonial abolitionist work.
Dr. BlackDeer's article is titled, “Unsettling Feminism in Social Work: Toward an Indigenous Decolonial Feminism." Read it here: doi.org/10.117...
Gita Mehrotra
Gita Mehrotra is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her practice experience prior to academia was in the field of domestic violence with a focus on Asian/South Asian women and LGBTQ communities of color. Gita has also been involved with QTPOC community building and supporting community-based approaches to funding social movement work. Her current research and teaching interests include: the safety & wellness of women and LGBTQ people of color, race/ism in social work education, field education, critical and culturally-grounded perspectives on domestic violence, and liberatory theories and methodologies for social work.
Dr. Mehrotra's article is titled “How We Do the Work Is the Work: Building an Intersectional Queer Praxis for Critical Feminist Scholarship." Read it here: doi.org/10.117...
Brianna Sorensen
Brianna is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. Her clinical practice, activism, and scholarship focuses on fat liberation and challenging the anti-fat attitudes that plague our country. Brianna is a junior scholar in the Centre of Fat Liberation & Scholarship, which is an international research centre founded by the late Dr. Cat Pausé. Finally, she is a co-founder of Fat Friends of Chicago, a community dedicated to seeking fat joy.
Brianna's article is titled, “Fat Liberation: How Social Workers Can Incorporate Fat Activism to Promote Care and Justice.” Read it here: doi.org/10.117...
Brianna recommends following: www.instagram....
Jessica Saba
Jessica Saba (she/her/hers), LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University, School of Social Work. Her research interests include examining the intersections of settler colonialism, resistance, and gender particularly within the Palestinian context. She is currently working on her dissertation project entitled: Palestinian Women’s Everyday Resistance to Settler Colonialism and Patriarchy: Tactics, Motivations, & Outcomes.
Jessica's article is titled, “‘No Free Homeland Without Free Women:’ Tal’at’s Indigenous Feminist Movement.” Read it here: doi.org/10.117...