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An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world? (2022)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (in press). An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world?. Critical and Radical Social Work, 10(2), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021x16555682461270

Reflection is a trademark tool of social work, but if reflection tools are blunt, they will never dismantle the house of intersectional racist oppression. This provocation contends that reflective models need to decisively focus on intersections of p... Read More about An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world?.

Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in? (2021)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2021). Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in?. Group Analysis, 54(3), 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316421997767

This is the transcript of a speech I gave at an Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) event on the 28th November 2020 about intersectionality and groups analysis. This was momentous for group analysis because it was the first IGA event to focus on black... Read More about Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in?.

‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position (2020)
Journal Article
Forrest, A., & Nayak, S. (2021). ‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position. Group Analysis, 54(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316420947999

Having in mind those gripped by ambivalence over whether to start, or stay on, the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis, we consider the training as one in ambivalence. We see ambivalence as an asset, not a hindrance. Forsaking familiar notions of amb... Read More about ‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position.

For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles (2020)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2020). For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles. Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(3), 405-421. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986020x15945755847234

This article offers women of colour in social work a black feminist self-care practice based on three principles from Audre Lorde’s work. The colonial situation of social work inevitably marginalises black feminist thinking and methods. In the contex... Read More about For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles.

Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace (2020)
Journal Article
Nayak, S., & Sheehy, C. (2020). Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace. Critical Social Policy, 40(2), 234-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018319896231

We use the method of conversation as a tool of living activist struggles to end social injustice. We draw on Black feminism to create an intersectionality of diverse activist voices across time and space. We insist on an intersectional acuity to anal... Read More about Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace.

Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement' (2019)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2019). Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'. Psychological Studies, 64, 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-019-00527-w

The methodology of ‘occupation’ through rereading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 19... Read More about Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'.

Declaring the activism of black feminist theory (2017)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2017). Declaring the activism of black feminist theory. Annual review of critical psychology (Online), 13, 1-12

This paper explores the ways in which declaring the activism of Black feminist theory troubles knowledge power relations, silence and hierarchical thinking. The Rape Crisis movement (rapecrisis.org.uk) has been instrumental shaping my standpoint and... Read More about Declaring the activism of black feminist theory.