Intersectionality and social work

In this episode we speak with Professor Sandy O'Sullivan, exploring their work on the colonial project of gender.

Suggested readings:

O’Sullivan, S. (2021). The colonial project of gender (and everything else). Genealogy, 5(3), 67. https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/3/67/htm

Cromb, N. & Pearson, L. (2001). Reconcile this: An Indigenous anthology. https://indigenousx.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Reconcile-This-An-IndigenousX-Anthology.pdf

O'Sullivan, S. (2015). Queering ideas of Indigeneity: Response in repose: Challenging, engaging and ignoring centralising ontologies, responsibilities, deflections and erasures. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 1(1), 5. https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=jgi

Day, M. (2020). Indigenist origins: Institutionalizing Indigenous queer and trans studies in Australia. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7(3), 367-373.

In this episode we speak with Professor Nik Taylor and Associate Professor Heather Fraser about their work on animal-human relationships, speciesism, and eco feminism.

Suggested readings:

Fraser, H., Taylor, N., & Riggs, D. W. (2021). Animals in disaster social work: an intersectional green perspective inclusive of species. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(5), 1739-1758. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8344481/

Riggs, D. W., Rosenberg, S., Fraser, H., & Taylor, N. (2021). Queer Entanglements: Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Animal Companionship. Cambridge University Press.

Taylor, N. (2007). 'Never an It': Intersubjectivity and the creation of animal personhood in animal shelters. Qualitative Sociology Review, 3(1).

Taylor, N., & Fraser, H. (2019). Companion animals and domestic violence: Rescuing me, rescuing you. Springer.

Fraser, H., & Taylor, N. (2016). Neoliberalization, universities and the public intellectual: Species, gender and class and the production of knowledge. Springer.

In this episode we speak with Arlene Lev about her work as an academic, activist, and social worker.

Suggested readings:

Anzaldúa, G., & Keating, A. (Eds.). (2013). This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation. Routledge. https://monoskop.org/images/a/ae/Anzaldua_Gloria_Keating_AnaLouise_eds_This_Bridge_We_Call_Home_2002.pdf

In this episode we speak with Associate Professor Clemence Due about her work with people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. 

Suggested readings:

Due, C., Heer, N., Baak, M., & Hanson‐Easey, S. (2019). “At night he cries from dreams”: Perceptions of children's psychological distress and wellbeing amongst parents with refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds in Australia. Australian Psychologist, 54(5), 438-449.

Lockton, J., Oxlad, M., & Due, C. (2021). Knowing how to help: Grandmothers’ experiences of providing and receiving support following their child’s pregnancy loss. Women and Birth, 34(6), 585-592.

Riggs, D. W., Due, C., & Taylor, N. (2017). ‘I want to bring him from the aeroplane to here’: The meaning of animals to children of refugee or migrant backgrounds resettled in Australia. Children & Society, 31(3), 219-230.

In this episode we speak with Dr Gávi Ansara about his work as a psychotherapist, his development of the cisgenderism framework, and the importance of situating intersectionality in the context of people's lives. 

Suggested readings:

Fuck You and Fuck Your Fucking Thesis Why I Will Not Participate in Trans Studies. https://tagonist.livejournal.com/199563.html

Ansara, Y. G., & Hegarty, P. (2012). Cisgenderism in psychology: Pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008. Psychology & Sexuality, 3(2), 137-160.

Ansara, Y. G., & Hegarty, P. (2014). Methodologies of misgendering: Recommendations for reducing cisgenderism in psychological research. Feminism & Psychology, 24(2), 259-270.

Ansara, Y. G. (2015). Challenging cisgenderism in the ageing and aged care sector: Meeting the needs of older people of trans and/or non‐binary experience. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 34, 14-18.

Ansara, Y. G., & Hegarty, P. (2013). Misgendering in English language contexts: Applying non-cisgenderist methods to feminist research. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 7(2), 160-177.

Fricker, M. (2007). Epistemic injustice: Power and the ethics of knowing. Oxford University Press.

In this episode we speak with Dr A.J. Lowik about their work on reproductive health, situatedness, and some of the potentials and pitfalls of working with intersectionality. 

NB: In the interview at 34:44, where A.J. says Barad and social death, they mean Berlant and slow death.

Suggested readings:

Lowik, A. J. (2020). “Just because I don't bleed, doesn't mean I don't go through it”: Expanding knowledge on trans and non-binary menstruators. International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2), 113-125. https://ianthomasmalone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Lowik-Just-because-I-dont-bleed-doesnt-mean-I-dont-go-through-it-Expanding-knowledge-on-trans-and-non-binary-menstruators-2.pdf

Lowik, A. J. (2018). Reproducing eugenics, reproducing while trans: The state sterilization of trans people. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 14(5), 425-445.

Radi, B. (2020). Reproductive injustice, trans rights, and eugenics. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 28(1), 1824318. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26410397.2020.1824318

cárdenas, M. (2016). Pregnancy: Reproductive futures in trans of color feminism. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 3(1-2), 48-57.

Nixon, L. (2013). The right to (trans) parent: a reproductive justice approach to reproductive rights, fertility, and family-building issues facing transgender people. Wm. & Mary J. Women & L., 20, 73. 

In this episode we speak with Dr Tracy Morison about her work on reproductive justice. 

Suggested readings:

Morison, T. (2013). Heterosexual men and parenthood decision making in South Africa: Attending to the invisible norm. Journal of Family Issues, 34(8), 1125-1144. https://www.fatherhood.gov/sites/default/files/resource_files/e000002801.pdf

Morison, T. (2021). Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 15(6), e12605. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/spc3.12605

Rice, C., Harrison, E., & Friedman, M. (2019). Doing justice to intersectionality in research. Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies, 19(6), 409-420. https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10214/17472/Rice_DoingJustice_ra06.pdf?sequence=1

Friedman, M., Rice, C., & Rinaldi, J. (Eds.). (2019). Thickening fat: Fat bodies, intersectionality, and social justice. Routledge.

Ross, L., Derkas, E., Peoples, W., Roberts, L., & Bridgewater, P. (Eds.). (2017). Radical reproductive justice: Foundation, theory, practice, critique. Feminist Press at CUNY.

In this episode we speak with Shoshana Rosenberg about ableism, critical fat studies, and the importance of 'living' intersectionality, rather than solely relying on academic texts. 

Suggested readings:

Rosenberg, S., & Tilley, P. M. (2021). ‘A point of reference’: the insider/outsider research staircase and transgender people’s experiences of participating in trans-led research. Qualitative Research, 21(6), 923-938.

Hazel, Y. P. (2018). Bla(c)k lives matter in Australia. Transition, 126(1), 59-67.

Johnson, J. R. (2013). Cisgender privilege, intersectionality, and the criminalization of CeCe McDonald: Why intercultural communication needs transgender studies. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 6(2), 135-144.

Mountian, I. (2017). Borders and margins: debates on intersectionality for critical research. Qualitative Research Journal.

Shandler, J. (2006). Queer Yiddishkeit: Practice and Theory. Shofar, 90-113.