Signs that You Are Still Colonizing Social Work: NYC x Columbia University Edition

This bingo card has a free space and 24 words: Prioritizing animal rights over Black lives, Using ACS/CPS as a first resort before reaching out to community-based organizations, Criminalizing poverty and homelessness, Assigning 3-day field placement per week without providing public transportation funds to students in need, Planting cops in subway and bus stations to criminalize fare evasion; hyper-targeting Black and Brown commuters, Believing that prisons are humane, Pairing youth of color with white mentors detached from their culture(s) and race, Feeling resentful when poor people have luxuries, Excluding warm food on SNAP, Commodifying health care and housing, Falsely equating anti-Black racism to other types of discrimination, Calling the police on Black and Brown neighbors in conflicts or distress, Not categorizing mental health issues as a structural public crisis, Gentrifying a historically Black neighborhood and displacing Black communities, Disrespecting people's pronouns; misgendering, Upholding carceral logic, Privatizing mental health care, Centering white guilt, white tears, and white students' feelings over anti-Black comments and issues, Lacking complete accountability for microaggressive and overt racism from CSSW students, Placing a food pantry for students in need in a hyper-visible place; further stigmatizing people dependent on food assistance, Framing poverty and homelessness as an individual's fault, Failing to link all forms of discrimination to anti-Black racism, Erasing the work of Black and Brown queer and trans activists in the Black liberation movement and Relying on professors of color, predominantly on Black women, for emotional labor to navigate anti-Black comments in class.

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