ABSTRACT
The social work and intersectionality literature includes: advocating for teaching intersectionality to students of diverse disciplines at undergraduate and postgraduate levels (Carbin and Edenheim, 2013); using it as a human
rights policy frame and incorporating it in social work practice, research, policy and education (Murphy et al., 2009); as a tool for critical reflection in social work for analysing a critical incident (Mattsson, 2014); and as an approach when considering creative research methodologies (Bryant, 2016). Social workers have been criticised for neglecting their activist roots and adapting to the contemporary neoliberal context that promotes individual responsibility (Zufferey, 2008; Gordon and Zufferey, 2013). Therefore, embracing intersectionality in social work practice with people who are homeless would involve re-examining the radical social work agenda and how homelessness and social work are constituted through unequal and intersecting power relations.
