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Chapter 12. Baby Bundle Project and Community Birth Work Journeys
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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This document analyzes structural inequities in Indigenous child welfare, specifically how funding priorities conflate poverty with parental neglect rather than addressing housing scarcity. It critiques epistemological challenges where colonial clinical standards invalidate intergenerational community knowledge surrounding birth and caregiving competencies. Furthermore, it advocates for structural transformation through policy shifts that redirect funds toward residency programs while dismantling state surveillance mechanisms that undermine family bonding and agency.
Contributors
Krysta Williams
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
