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Podcast: Helpful Social Work Podcast
Episode: 3a – The Power of the Pen: A Black Women’s Writing Retreat
Description: Welcome to today’s episode.
We’re diving into the power of Black women’s writing — not just as creativity, but as survival, healing, and resistance. This episode comes out of a five-day writing retreat in July 2025 for Black women in academia, social work, and beyond. I brought them together to write for the upcoming special issue for the British Journal of Social Work (listen back to episode 1 for details). What happened in that space was profound: women who had been silenced found their voices, those isolated in their institutions found solidarity, and writing itself became a tool of l...