rev mel, lsw, dsw student

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,

Years ago in undergrad, I briefly changed my major from social work to christian ministry (lololol). Then I changed it back to social work. Little did I know that social work was — and is — my ministry. 🧵🪡

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Trans Christians, where you at?

My trans theology group are working on a project to celebrate trans Christian joy for trans day of visibility - if you’re at least vaguely trans and vaguely Christian, please share your joy with us! Details on how to contribute are on the original post 🏳️‍⚧️

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some cis men be like, “i’m lgbt affirming, i love lesbian porn”

i appreciate that ♥️♥️ thank you

aww thank you!! and do ittttttt 😆

a high compliment !!!!

oh my gawsh ty ♥️

hi i got my hair dyed darker blue and chrome nails

hai

being gay means getting away with a scrubs work outfit that looks like this

omg it happened again yesterday in NYC y’all 😂

i don’t know what it is, but i am a living magnet for people’s lost credit cards, debit cards, ID’s, and cash lol. i’m thankful that it’s me who finds them so that i can give them back to the rightful owner or to the store it dropped at, but it feels like it happens more often than it should 😂

new tattoo ♥️

it’s so funny when you’re meeting people and they’re like “what are your hobbies!” because if i’m truly honest the answer is “The Lord Jesus Christ and sex!”

🔐

I’m not ringing any false bells of alarmism, nor will I mince words: There is a political coup happening in the U.S.

And it’s mostly because of White Christian Nationalism. 🧵

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This is a very substantial thread, most notably b/c Rev. Mel identifies the ways in which one needn't be raised in a ~ White Christian Nationalist ~ environment to subscribe, often unquestioningly, to the tenets thereof. I learned LOTS of this growing up in the mainstream Methodist church.