Grad Student in Community Practice Social Work
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How anti-LGBTQ+ policy can hurt the hospice and palliative care population
Anti-LBTQ+ policies hurt members of our communities and complicate the provision of palliative and other care. Read more
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How anti-LGBTQ+ policy can hurt the hospice and palliative care population
Anti-LBTQ+ policies hurt members of our communities and complicate the provision of palliative and other care.
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“Don’t say gay” and similar policies from a social work perspective
HB 837 and other policies like it contribute to attitudes and a social environment that is hostile to LGBTQ citizens and their affirming families, and may socially exclude, criminalize, and physically and mentally endanger them. We must engage in policy practice.
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I got blocked by a Louisiana state senator
It’s not just Senator Jackson blocking people who disagree with her on policy on Twitter. The current systems block us historically, presently, and continually.
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Three days of civic engagement in Lincoln Parish (or “I love the library”)
This weekend I wrote an advocacy letter, voted to fund the library, went to a “focus group” and read a children’s book.
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Yes, Mike Milstead, racism is systemic in Lincoln Parish and the Lincoln Parish schools [updated with Superintendent vote 10/23/2020]
Lincoln Parish Schools superintendent Mike Milstead doesn’t think systemic racism exists in Lincoln Parish or its schools. Facts say otherwise.
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Resources to help kids learn and talk about injustice, race, white supremacy, and liberation (last updated 6/5/2020)
Kids are never too young to see or talk about race, injustice, and freedom. Here are some resources to help them.
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Uprisings, police abolition, anti-racism, and transformative justice: References after a Facebook Live (last updated 7/6/2020)
Mostly free to download, watch, or access references on policing, police abolition, transformative justice, and uprisings in America.
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Talking about cutting social welfare at a birthday dinner
This sounded like many a Facebook discussion to me. “Why should I pay for this? Bootstraps, amirite!?” But it’s my ethical responsibility to advocate, so here’s my answer.
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Congressional Analysis: SMARTWATCH Data Act and Beyond the Box for Education Act
Here’s what I wrote on Bill Cassidy and Jacky Rosen’s SMARTWATCH Data Act and Cedric Richmond’s Beyond the Box for Education Act of 2019.
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‘Cancel culture’ is in the title, so will it even make sense?
AKA “I don’t think ‘cancel culture’ means what you think it means, and you might want to love it.”
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