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This is the world of mandated reporting. A young Black girl realizing the adults responsible for her education and care can easily turn against her without notice.
What does the child “welfare” system have to do with adoption? In this episode of @adopteecrossing we discuss the oppressive entanglement of family policing—targeted state surveillance, child removal & termination of parental rights—and adoption.
Conversation hosted by @UH_SocialWork just got heavy.
Kiese Laymon: “In your dream do social workers exist?”
@dereckapurnell: “No. They are navigating harmful systems. In the dream … why would we need social workers?”
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If you missed today's conversation "How We EndUP: Black Feminist Dreams for the Future" you can view the video here: https://t.co/VtYaCJZKuk #upENDmovement
Stay tuned! Our next major event is our one-year anniversary of launching #upENDmovement where we'll a set of collaborative ideas collected as How We End UP: A Future Without Family Policing.
We can't talk about the nonprofit industrial complex without referencing this book by @incitenews: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
#upENDmovement https://t.co/CLOKG5kmGV
Critical questions about the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: how are these funds dispersed, who are they dispersed to, and what issues are deemed important? #upENDmovement
Victoria: If we really expand our lens to think about the collusion between these different systems it's fueled by larger logics of racism, terrorism, and capitalism. Our solutions have to come out of cross-solidarity movements. #ExpandYourLens #upENDmovement
A viewer asks about the connections between the family policing and immigration systems.
Victoria talks about how state violence causes the harm, and then allegedly attempts to "fix" it using the same logics that caused it. #upENDmovement
Mandatory reporting has created a system of fear-based decision-making that has really overwhelmed the family policing system. @_VCopeland says it deserves much greater scrutiny in our society. #upENDmovement
Victoria: How do we address the relationship-building through #MandatoryReporting in schools?
How to foster connections without coercive and state-sanctioned mechanisms of dealing with harm inflicted on a child? #upENDmovement
Victoria on social workers: we're taught to come in and Save and ascribe people to DSM categorization.
What are other ways of care and leaving people alone. How do we step back and let people invite us into spaces? #upENDmovement
What does it mean to look toward community care? Create mutual relationships with folks who are near us and who can support us. #upENDmovement
We are acknowledging that real harm happens to our children. But we don't believe that necessitates state violence. Our current system of retributive justice isn't focused on fixing harm. #upENDmovement
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