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Chapter 3. For Black Women, Health Care Is an Abolition Issue
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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First, the chapter critiques carceral infrastructure embedded in healthcare, analyzing how punitive mechanisms specifically target Black women and queer individuals within marginalized communities. Second, it explores neoliberal policy impacts that shift cultures toward blame rather than support for staff failing efficiency metrics. Finally, the text proposes abolitionist praxis to redefine welfare as a universal right through mutual aid while confronting historical colonial roots within the social work profession.
Contributors
Renée Nichole Ferguson
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.
