#School of Social Work

[detroitography]

Map: Detroit Home Mortgages 2011-2021

I contributed some mapping support to the research conducted by DC Palmer and the UM Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-Being on home mortgage data in Detroit. “According to Anthony Smith, the City of Detroit DPA program manager, as of May 11, therewere 2 applications successfully originated (closed), 11 vetted for approval, and 35applications in process. By June 20, Dina Harris, CEO…

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#2011 #2021 #2023 #cartography #Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-Being #David Palmer #Detroit #geography #HMDA #map #mortgage #School of Social Work #University of Michigan

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[dtgenterprise]

Wayne State University School of Social Work

#damon t garrett #wayne state university #wsu warriors #school of social work

[stuckinapril]

It really is so true that you never know what someone’s going through behind closed doors. I’ve made being gentle and kind my default bc I’ve had super put together friends disclose the most harrowing time of their lives to me and it’s like oh?? You were going through that???? I would’ve never guessed

#It’s easy to reduce people to side characters or caricatures but you never know. You truly never know what someone’s going through or what #Could push them over the edge. Cruelty will never be worth potentially causing someone permanent damage #I’ve realized this after having a conversation w a friend of mine who sailed straight to med school #Tons of leadership roles #Thriving social life #Yet she just told me her hair was falling out from anxiety. Never in a million years would I have guessed that she was struggling #But she was and lots of people play things close to their chest like that #I really wanna be kind each time I can and to also come from a place of compassion #Bc ik I’ve been misunderstood by people before who reduced me to a caricature or just didn’t know what was happening in my life #I want to actively work on extending the benefit of the doubt to the same people I would want to extend the benefit of the doubt to me

[cupiidzbow]

we’re autism4autism have i ever mentioned that

#YOU BET MY ASS I WILL SIT AND LISTEN HIM TALK ABOUT THE AERODYNAMIC DIFFERENCES IN PLANES #YOU BET MY ASS I WILL SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO HIM TALK WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS BIKE #literally my favorite thing to do is listen to people talk abt their special interest #I have learned more things in life by hearing people talk then I have ever learned in school #my sister is the reason I am so knowledgeable about w.we i know these all of these wrestlers just by listening to her and I love it ☝🏽 #funky hanging on to every word I say as I talk about the regional differences and variants of my tamagotchis #‘have I ever told you about the one where you can send your tama.gotchi to go get a job. you have to give them a resume. they can reject you #‘I am madly in love with you.’ #sorry I’m crazy i love this hc so much #THE REASON HE WEARS THE GLASSES ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE ?? LIGHT SENSITIVITY ISSUES!!!! #THE REASON HE SEEMS SO ECCENTRIC AND ODD AMONG HIS PEERS SOMETIMES? MISSING SOCIAL CUES BABY!!!!!!! #I think it’s fun to think the coolest mf on the island is autistic LIKE I KNOW THATS RIGHTT 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #ok sorry for rambling I love talking about this #doodles #self ship #self shipping #bipoc self ship #🦍🏄‍♂️🌊

[moeblob]

Sorry I forgot Hanneman suggested Byleth undress after they show up with a different hair color. And I miss Hanneman. And also while swapping between Houses and Hopes and seeing Hanneman pop up to help in a Hopes paralogue is just devastating since he doesn't ever actually join you at all and I am denied my old man rights.

So I had to draw this. Thank you for understanding.

#fe three houses #byleth #hanneman von essar #i like that Byleth just kinda stares at him and he realizes WHAT HE SAID and the implications and is like #step back uh forget that I said that #like man so zoned in on research he blurts that out and has to backtrack mentally to AH socially bad to say that my bad #if i need to tag this as anything lemme know even though it is a conversation in game basically (minus the marriage) #also if you have never married hanneman i genuinely enjoyed his s support and was VERY surprised and hes just #honestly one of my favorites overall in 3h ?? and im still bummed i cant play as him in thropes like thats just mean #also i think if byleth was like oh well if its awkward to see someone undress randomly #then marriage would solve the awkwardness this is truly the best deduction #which is really funny that i can see it happening with both leths despite my hc of them #with fyleth as bi and myleth as ace i think both would just be like AH cool we can avoid awkwardness by marriage #and hanneman just wants to go lie down in a ditch because he said something like that #and and byleth doesnt even know about religion while working at church school they dont know about school regulations #that wasnt really on their mind to check ok just saying you could tell byleth no to something #and then they just go oh school policies i understand unfortunately #and the person is like no we just meant its frowned upon to do archery practice in the tea garden its not technically illegal just dont??

[shameless-and-delirious]

i do not play with ghost trick kitty

i just dont know which should be keychains which should be phone charms or both or neither.... Man

#ghost trick #comifuro #ghost trick: phantom detective #excuse the massive watermarks this is my first time selling things seriously and idk im jus worried #fanart #ghost trick fanart #cat #im tempted to tag spoilers this cat's very existence is kind of spoilery #OH YEAH the wmarks arent shameless and delirious bc this is my twitter account yayy #how do people work social media again being in school hell for 3 years really ruins your sense of coolness #my catalogue is NOT DONE i have too many ideas and too little energy

[mueritos]

its my bday today so heres a new meet the artist :3

#muertodraws #finished my first day of grad school #i would have enjoyed it more if this fuck ass heat wave wasnt happening #but it wasnt too bad im excited to get to workin #also this mta is the first one where i felt like i didnt have to try hard #im allowing myself to exist as i am #and it feels nice #that includes the questioning of autism #aka i am probably autistic #i just struggle with gaslighting myself #but im learnig that autistic coping skills really work for me #like stimming and paying attention to my sensory and social needs #so that has been interesting #anyway #i am super tired but kind of hopeful :) #so thats nice #trans artist #queer artist #meet the artist

[bluechocowitz]

A little bit late, but happy!! birthday undertale!!!

#undertale #fanart #bluechocowitz #bluechocoart #frisk #anniversary #uh #birthday #ig #man school work sucks orz #maybe i shouldn’t be putting so much effort that way i can draw more stuff for ✨myself✨ #ah well #LONG TIME NO SEE TUMBLR DOT COM #i have not been active on social media #like at all #i’ve been……. touching grass

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Guide to Accessibility, Adiustments & Accommodations

General:

Reduce sensory overwhelm in spaces/provide safe and quiet space

Providing clear communication / no ambiguity or vagueness

More time to process questions or information

Choice to:

wear noise-cancelling headphones or earbuds

communicate via other methods (AAC: picture/word cards, sign language) . to use stim objects whenever necessary

to be excused /take a break if needed

Social:

Meeting in safe/comfortable settings

Advanced warnings of cancellations

Understanding if needing to cancel or leave early

No pressure to talk/make eye contact/make physical contact

Clear information on what is going to happen/when/with whom

School:

Private room for exams

Extended deadlines

Extra time in exams

Note-taking assistance

I-2-I Support/private tutoring

Nominated safe person/space

Support with technology/AAC

Breaks when needed

Support moving around school

Not to be picked on in class/signalling system to talk

Accompaniment on trips

Accessible fonts and backgrounds for worksheets/presentations

Exemption from assemblies

Safe space to eat with more time

Work:

Quiet(er)/less overwhelming workspace

Extra breaks

Time to think in interviews

Interview questions ahead of time

Bringing in notes for an interview

Clear schedule/routine, with advanced warning of changes

Mentorship/support

Flexible work times

Ability to work from home if able

Exemptions from group activities or meetings

Comfortable work equipment e.g. chairs/keyboards

Autisticality

Slightly edited the picture to make it easier to see

#autism #actually autistic #neurodiversity #actually neurodivergent #accommodations #types of accommodations #work accommodations #school accommodations #social accommodations #general accommodations #feel free to reblog/share #source: Autisticality (Facebook)

[min-play]

i can’t keep doing this

#min draw #minbitt #masking #my autism and adhd experience #i tried way too hard to fit in #probably should've realised i was neurodivergent sooner #entering high school i studied a lot of things i struggled to maintain interest in #just for the sake of having a bigger reservoir of conversation topics #it worked! only for a short while #turns out if ppl like you they want to hang out with you MORE #having to keep up this study grind every day spiralled me into dread #i ended up with burn out in the first month of high school lmao #be comfortable #not me evaluating my performance after every social interaction i have

[peachzin]

guhh trying to think of what older souji would look like..

#doodle tag #I think he’d work w kids in some way #like a primary school teacher or social worker #or a doctor.. #lawyer maybe too #I think he’d learn to part his hair eventually and he’d have to wear Real glasses.. #persona 4 #p4

[sunnys-side-upside-down]

Blorbo's Eepiest Soldier

Thank you everyone for your kind words, I'm doing better and am back to it <3

#helloo! #thank you all for the well wishes #I have really appreciated every kind word #I'm doing better now and have gotten back to school work #i am so eepy though #eepiest soldier #im also being overworked on my capstone game team and the team lead even told me shes over working me so thats #fun #counting going to this capstone class and meetings and such im putting like 25+ hours in a week for it #and i do have 2 other classes #and a social life i enjoy having #haha #but im happy to do the work cause its good portfolio stuff #except when my producer comes up to me and says "yknow how ur in charge of all the 2d art and concepting and branding and ui and pr? yeah g #make a 3-4 page detailed comic for plot at the start of our game cause we dont wanna cut plot (even tho we dont have time for it) and we #dont wanna show plot through interactable objects and dialogue/text so more work for you even tho u legit dont have time for it #ngl tho i have genuinely been enjoying designing icons and doing model concepts #i made some fire designs recently #please hire me a game company tm #anyway enough of capstone talk #love you all!!! #im excited to graduate and finally be able to change my bio!! #hope you all have a very lovely rest of your day <33 #furry #fursona #digital art #art #eepy

[dtgenterprise]

My WSU SSW Family

#thesk8doctor #damon t garrett #sk8doc #healthylifestyle #wayne state university #school of social work

[tianhai03]

hey there.

#took a short break from social media... and by that i mean twitter.... #school work was piling up and it got overwhelming so i thought throwing twitter aside for a few days can help lol #i missed drawing him hes more fun and easier to draw than anything im doing for school.... screw studying i wanna look at him all day... uuu #devil may cry #dante(dmc) #allyart #i can feel my art style changing right before my eyes #this is what drawing things and not using your own style for it for 5 days does to an artist

[socialworkerbee]

diagnostics is such a challenge already. i never even considered how symptoms present in neurodivergent individuals.

#studyblr #studyspo #social work student #college student #social work #msw #college #college life #study #graduate student #gradblr #grad student #grad school #graduate school #grunge academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia