Social work is not a neutral profession. It is at its beating heart a resistance movement. In this moment of climate collapse, creeping fascism, and commodified care, we need resistance more than ever.

Let’s take our place in the movement demanding justice and respect for the marginalised, the dispossessed, the colonised. Let’s name the line, push back against it, and alongside the many others fighting for change, force it open.

Because when we do, we remind the world that people are not systems to be managed. They are stories, struggles, and strengths to be honoured.

And that, more than anything, is social work.