Doin’ The Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change
Society & Culture
Episode 45
Guest: Wayne Reid, Professional Officer, Social Worker & Anti-Racism Visionary
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW
www.dointhework.com
Listen/Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify
Follow on Twitter & Instagram, Like on Facebook
Join the mailing list
Support the podcast
Download transcript
If you love what we discuss on the podcast, then you will love our courses! We focus on frameworks, knowledge, and skills to engage in anti-racist, anti-oppressive, justice-based liberatory practice. CEs are available. Check out https://dointhework.com/courses/ to learn more and register. We hope you will join us!
Check out the new Doin’ The Work Collection of hoodies, tees, mugs, and tote bags! Rep the podcast you love while doin’ the work.
Thank you to this episode’s sponsor! The University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Social Work (UTK) has a phenomenal social work program, with the opportunity to do your bachelor’s master’s, and doctorate of social work online. Scholarships are available.
In this episode, I talk with Wayne Reid, who is a Professional Officer and Anti-Racism Visionary at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Wayne is my first international guest, and I am so grateful! Wayne talks about how his understanding of anti-racism in social work and his motivation for speaking out and taking action was catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd. He discusses a number of projects he and BASW have been working on, specific to anti-racism in social work – check out the link to his extensive portfolio in the show notes. These are excellent resources. Wayne shares what anti-racist social work means to him and how a concept that should be straightforward becomes very complex in application due to the embeddedness of white supremacy and racism in laws, policies, institutions, beliefs, and actions. We discuss how no one wants to say they are racist, but actions that support racist policies are being done in the regular operations of social work practice. Wayne talks about his “pure, proactive, and unapologetic” approach to anti-racism within social work and the need for this approach due to constantly being up against white supremacy both as a Black man and as a Black male social worker. He discusses the need for social workers to practice anti-racism as part of our standards of conduct, not just with clients, but with colleagues, and the need for organizations to provide protections and support for social workers of color that explicitly address the many forms of institutional and interpersonal racism they experience, as well as steps organizations can take to transform into anti-racist organizations. Wayne also shares how he got into this work. I hope this conversation inspires you to action.
Anti-racism in Social Work Portfolio
Twitter: @wayne_reid79
Email: wayne.reid@basw.co.uk
We Charge Genocide – Jalil Muntaqim
Civil Rights Organizing – Alesandra Lozano, MSW
Abolitionist Social Work – Cameron Rasmussen, MSW; Durrell Washington, MSW; Michelle Grier, LMSW; Vivianne Guevara, LMSW
Transformational Healing & Critical Race Theory in Practice – Nicole Vazquez, MSW, MPP & Susana Victoria Parras, LCSW, PPSC
Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppressive Mental Health – Hayden Dawes, LCSW
Speaking Against Police Injustice – Anjanette Young, LCSW
White People Organizing for Racial Justice: Deep Canvassing – Kristen Brock-Petroshius, MSW
Black Power, Black Liberation & Social Work: Back to the Beginning of the National Association of Black Social Workers – Founder Garland Jaggers, MSW & Archivist Denise McLane-Davison, PhD, AM
Critical Race Theory and Social Work – Laura S. Abrams, MSW, PhD and Nicole Vazquez, MSW, MPP
Prison to Professor – Nathan Stephens, MSW
Healing Trauma Through Community Building in Little Village – Alicia Martinez, MSW; David ”Tiny” Estrada; Shipra Parikh, PhD, LCSW
Voting and Legislative Advocacy – Dawn Brown, MSW
Black Social Workers Speak Out About Social Work Education – André Marcel Harris, BSW; Dashawna J. Fussell-Ware, MSW; Deana Ayers, BSW; Vivian Taylor, MSW
Prison Abolition – K Agbebiyi, MSW
The Social Justice Doula – Lutze Segu, MSW
The Alliance for GLBTQ Youth – Mark Houston, LCSW and Pauline Green, Esq
Mental Health in Schools – Tre King, MSW
Immigrant Rights at the Border – Alejandra Martinez
White Supremacy in Social Work – Charla Cannon Yearwood, LSW and Laura Hoge, LCSW
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Dairyland Frights
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL