Intersectionality and social work

• Episode 1: Sandy O'Sullivan

  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.

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• Episode 2: Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser

  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.

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• Episode 3: Arlene Lev

  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

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• Episode 4: Clemence Due

  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.

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• Episode 5: Gávi Ansara

  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.

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