Hello! 👋
I’m Joel Izlar (for American visitors, my last name rhymes with the licorice candy Twizzler) and welcome to my personal site.
If you’ve accidentally come across this page — or even intentionally for that matter — I must warn you that it’s pretty boring.
You might be better off looking at the 500 cutest animals or listening to some cool music from Tanzania.
About Me 📚
I’m a Dad, social scientist, educator, tea head, noise rock enthusiast, and manic depressive. My pronouns are he/him.
I have over a decade of experience as a community worker in the US Deep South where I’ve focused on ecosocial welfare, mutual aid, and justice. I now spend most my time researching, teaching, and publishing on ecosocial community work. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Social Work at the University of Georgia (US).
I was trained in the feminist, participatory tradition, where the focus is on organizing community, not community organizing.
I believe that long-term, project-based organizing based upon mutual aid acts as a more reliable model for lasting social change than common methods that emphasize top-down, masculinist, short-term “battles” and “wins.”
This site isn’t updated very often, but I’m somewhat active on Mastodon (@joelizlar), so join me there.
If you would like to support my work, you can contribute through Liberapay or BTC: bc1q5sjlhltwane9v2y7cystfu30zqlv37mz0eycwg
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