Pratiche anti-oppressive e popolazione LGBTQAI+: riflessioni per la formazione in servizio sociale

Abstract

The aim of this work is to contribute to the Italian debate, firstly through a reconstruction of the main assumptions of Critical Social Work (CSW) whose analyses provide social workers with a critical awareness and reflexivity without which it would not be possible to link their professional practice and the daily challenges that LGBTQAI+ people face with the systemic and structural aspects of disadvantage and oppression that characterise contemporary societies. In this sense, CSW - applied to the fields of sexual orientations, gender identities and non-normative sexualities - is configured as an overall practice that invests the identities of social workers and users and their symbolic and material positioning within specific socio-cultural and structural systems and that aims, in general terms, to guarantee "spaces" for the elaboration of "own" narratives, for the selfdetermination of subjects and for the adoption of emancipatory and anti-oppressive practices. The article aims to identify conceptual nodes and main areas of application in order to solicit a more critical general reflection with respect to social service which aims to be “critical” towards its the hetero-cis-normative foundations