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Do Our Voices Matter? • SJS

In the beginning of the 87th Texas Legislative Session, I felt hopeful. Hopeful for what I would learn, the ways I would grow, the people I would meet, the friends I would make, things I would learn about myself, and much more. Nearing the end of session, all of these things have come to fruition. What I have been able to learn and accomplish has shown me so much about myself. Myself and the other 12 University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work legislative interns are often asked the impossible, with impossible time limits. However, every time, we have ....

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On Integrity • SJS

May 11, 2021
Guest Submission
I have been thinking a lot about integrity lately. It is my favorite of social work’s six core values, perhaps because it is the most all-encompassing. The word can represent honesty, competence, kindness, and morality. For a social worker, having integrity means promoting social justice and universal well-being in your service of diverse communities.
For a political social worker, this can look and feel more complicated. Instead of being out in the field, meeting people where they are, providing direct services, we dress up in our suits and spend our days talking to other people in suits about how to solve the problems that other social workers are meeting head-on. Especially in the Texas House of Representatives, promoting social justice can feel like repeatedly running into a brick wall. ....

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The George Floyd Act: Texans' Stories of Police Brutality • SJS

May 10, 2021
Guest Submission
The George Floyd Act addresses qualified immunity by creating a cause of action for deprivation of rights; requires corroboration for the testimony of undercover police officers; adds a duty to intervene and to render aid; prohibits chokeholds and limits lethal force to imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death. It also ends arrests for many non-jailable fine-only violations and mandates creation of a progressive disciplinary matrix establishing different disciplinary actions for policy violations and violations of law by police. The law would call for these actions to be developed through a statewide process with stakeholders using evidence-based practices. ....

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"If you see something, say something." • SJS

April 13, 2021
Guest Submission
One Friday night in early March, after a long work week during the lege, I received a text message from a white friend. The noting of my friend’s “whiteness” is an essential part of understanding the lens through which I see things. It is a critical part of being able to have a purposeful conversation about race. She sent me a text with a TikTok link of a comedian telling a joke titled “how to tell Asians apart only by their accents.” This friend followed up her text link with texts for me to “wait for it” and “so funny.” At the end of this comedian’s skit was a reference to how a Vietnamese person speaks “as if they had been doing cocaine, or as if they are speeding car, driving past you as they spoke.” By the way, I am Vietnamese. I am also American. When I received the text, I was still busy working. I did not watch the video and just responded with a “laughing emoji” in response to her “so funny” comme ....

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The George Floyd Act: Texans' Stories of Police Brutality • SJS

April 8, 2021
Guest Submission
The George Floyd Act addresses qualified immunity by creating a cause of action for deprivation of rights; requires corroboration for the testimony of undercover police officers; adds a duty to intervene and to render aid; prohibits chokeholds and limits lethal force to imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death. It also ends arrests for many non-jailable fine-only violations and mandates creation of a progressive disciplinary matrix establishing different disciplinary actions for policy violations and violations of law by police. The law would call for these actions to be developed through a statewide process with stakeholders using evidence-based practices. ....

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