A Past Accessibility Advisor Makes a Desperate Plea for Trauma-Responsive Care for Survivors
If you have worked in a helping profession over the last couple of decades, you have likely heard someone describe their approach as trauma-informed, but that term was rarely ever embodied, and it is already long obsolete! 👀
This example may resonate more if Black, Indigenous, or racialized, but "trauma-informed" is much like in 2020 when many white folx expressed an interest in racial justice as they informed us of all the anti-racist books they read, as if them being more informed about our oppression would result in any actual improvements for our communities of colour! 🤡"
Especially if not Black, Indigenous, or racialized, you may not have known that some white folx did not even bother to go collect their anti-racist books, so I doubt they read them, and further doubt they implemented anti-racist plans.
Similarly, I have barely seen trauma-informed approaches practiced by colleagues despite 15 years as a registered social worker in such roles as Mental Health Therapist, Accessibility Advisor, etc., because those with privilege often find it easier to assume they know better given how those unearned rewards without the trauma of oppression obscures their insight, but even that "informed" lens is useless without operationalizing their understanding of trauma impacts by meeting folx where they are at, as bureaucracy and complacency embody complicity in our slow deaths."
When this world has traumatized the fuck out of me while ripping those rewards the myth of meritocracy deceitfully offers for an ethical, hard-working existence over 4 decades, my commitment to honouring my access needs will need to be pried from my cold, dead hands!🔥"
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