Syd (they/them)

community grounded, relationship driven, hope is built through action; community practice, collective care, critical social work, rural queer

[Syd (they/them) @SydoftheWood]

@DrSubini It was an excellent panel thank you!

[IASW @IASW_IRL]

An opportunity for #SocialWorkers to undertake a free online 3-session CPD course from ⁦@IFSW⁩ on understanding the human rights framework and its relevance to social work. Course contributors incl ⁦@vasilios_⁩ More info: https://t.co/nhHjUlfBax

[Assigned Media @assignedmedia]

Ultimately, whether Nex died to suicide or from his injuries, his death is downstream from a climate of hatred that was created by adult conservatives.

Those responsible include school officials, state authorities, social media personalities, and fake news grifters.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

Louisiana’s toxic air is linked to low-weight and pre-term births

Residents have long suspected that the state's petrochemical plants and facilities were impacting birth outcomes. Now, a new study shows a correlation.

@19thnews

https://t.co/U2a5KpkUYp

[Center for LGBTQ+ Research & Advocacy @LGBTQResearchKU]

Anti-Trans Policies and Social Work Town Hall Series Presents: Trans Advocacy & Policy Training, March 22nd, 11-1CT / 12-2ET. Register at https://t.co/uOEDguvvpT
Social Work CEUs available

[Disability Rights California @DisabilityCA]

The ACLUs across California announced their official opposition to Proposition 1 in the upcoming March 2024 Primary Election.

“Health care and housing are human rights. California’s mental health and housing systems need reform, but the numbers show that Proposition 1 is not likely to have any long-term effect in addressing California’s houselessness crisis, improving mental health systems, or helping alleviate mass incarceration." - Carmen-Nicole Cox, Director of Government Affairs at @ACLU_CalAction

Learn more here:
https://t.co/9505cnI9rQ

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

I have a lot of people who work with unhoused people reply to my posts like this every day. Blaming individual people for making "bad choices" that put them there.

That disgust and contempt is palpable and is part of the reason people don't trust service providers.

[Doc Green 🍉 @AbolitionDoc]

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[NDN Collective @ndncollective]

❤️ Today, we commemorate the defeat of captain cook, the colonizer who was killed by Kānaka Maoli relatives on this day in 1779. This happened after his third intrusive visit to the Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Islands). ❤️

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[Sydney Nicole Sweeney (she/they) @syderature]

if you mask at work, especially if your coworkers don’t, you are loudly announcing that you are more than your labor power—that even when everyone else could care less about themselves, about you, you still KNOW your life is worth protecting. that’s worker’s resistance.

[MSF International @MSF]

🩺Meet Dr Mohammad Bashir, MSF deputy medical coordinator in Sudan 👋

Below he reflects on his experience as a doctor and his dedication to saving lives in the absence of sufficient resources since conflict erupted in his country👇

🔴 https://t.co/vnzQhUzDmG

[stefanie @stefkaufman]

If we collectively agree doulas are critical interventions to disrupt medical abuse/deadly outcomes during childbirth, ensure folks know their rights, & offer emotional support folks would otherwise be left without, we should also agree that psych ‘patients’ deserve this care.

[daanis @gindaanis]

This poem by Jessica Foster re-entered my timeline today. Still powerful af.

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

It's wild that the tiny homes and "safe tents" that are costing taxpayers MILLIONS a year crumble when touched by any weather (when they're not catching on fire.)

People need real shelter that follows some real safety codes and not these half assed sites ran by grifters.

[Shao Trommashere 🪷🐝 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @MedicTrommasher]

The first Paramedics in the country were Black men and women from Pittsburgh, PA and it started because Cops refused to go into Black neighborhoods to take them to the hospital the same way they did in White communities.

https://t.co/CdVvLsm4OD

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

Humans shouldn't always have to be resilient. Just fix structural inequality! The framing of resilience in research studies comes across as a necessary individual trait, and if you don't possess it, suffering is the person's fault.

[CSUEU @CSUEU]

student assistants + a union ♥️ name a more iconic duo. our union election starts in two days!! for more info, check out https://t.co/TIL9Hi2e1r #SEIU #UnionsForAll

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

The criminalization of houselessness has been an ongoing project and many people point to the for profit prison industry. But there’s another sector people may not be aware of.

Here’s a clue: 40% of houseless people are disabled and just 5% of move in ready homes are accessible.