The Social Justice Doula – Lutze Segu, MSW

Episode 31
Guest: Lutze Segu, MSW
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW

Lutze Segu, the Social Justice Doula from Miami, Florida, shares her work creating conditions for social justice learning and transformation in individuals and organizations. Rooted in Black Feminist theory, she discusses how systems of oppression — not individual failings — shape people's conditions, and challenges social workers to examine how they may be pathologizing oppression rather than naming it. Lutze speaks with deep hope about people's capacity to change and offers a powerful call to divest from anti-Blackness in both practice and life.

In this episode:

• What it means to create conditions for social justice learning and transformation
• How Black Feminist theory reframes oppression and connects to social work's person-in-environment approach
• How social workers pathologize oppression by placing the problem inside clients rather than naming systemic violence
• The challenge to ask what we are really practicing and how we personally divest from anti-Blackness
• The transformative impact of attending an HBCU and how it shaped her path

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"District Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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