06/07/2024
I get passionate about how we qu**rs who work with qu**rs do our work, differently from what is considered normal.
(Text from images): What isn't spoken about enough is that when us qu**rs work with qu**rs, we often face similar challenges in our lives, as our clients face in theirs.
I know my Social Work degree taught me to not "over identify" with my clients. While I believe in the reasoning behind this, models like this are steeped in endo-cis-heteronormativity
When a trans femme person I work with talks about the glares they get going to the supermarket, I cannot escape that this is a similar reality for me too.
Normative ethics and supervision models would say that I need to distance myself from people like this. But I know that trans people often seek me out for therapy because I am trans.
As a Clinical Supervisor myself, I make space to embrace the nuance and complexity in these situations. I know that we need to do self care, and boundaries more deliberately as a result.
Part of this is looking at how structural inequity will effect is as trans people in similar ways, while trans people in caring roles are often left with all the burden of a broken, harmful system of oppression.
How we then respond becomes the art of my supervision sessions. How do YOU engage in vicarious resistance? How does YOUR body react to structural abandonment? How do you radically sustain your work with community?
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