Therapists Are Also the Police: Social Work, Sex Work, and the Politics of Deservingness

Listen to this episode from Threadings. on Spotify. Therapists are part of the Soft Police (signed, an MSW). Read the full essay at Ismatu.Substack.com. Thank you for listening with an open mind!Sources:No Soft Police! Event Recording organized by Interrupting Criminalization"No Soft Police,” a chapter in No More Police! written by Andrea Ritchie and Mariame Kaba (please email me if you would like assistance accessing the text or if you would like to buy the book for someone else!)Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant, journalist and former sex workerBrown, Victoria Bissell. "Sex and the city: Jane Addams confronts prostitution." (2010).Mendes, P. (2020). Tracing the origins of critical social work practice. In Critical social work (pp. 17-29). Routledge.History of Social Work in the United States Links to sources available in transcript. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ismatu.substack.com/subscribe