In recent editorials, Affilia has emphasized how critical feminist inquiry offers powerful frameworks for challenging unjust power structures and social systems (Gibson et al., 2024;Goodkind et al., 2021;Jackson et al., 2024;Karandikar et al., 2024). Moreover, critical feminism highlights the interconnectedness of various forms of oppression, subjugation, exploitation, and moral panic that emerge across and respond to categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, and geography. For social workers, understanding and critiquing power and oppression are key to understanding clients' experiences within broader societal contexts.Indeed, critical feminist frameworks are vital to developing social work responses within global socio-political landscapes that face the resurgence of fascist and authoritarian ideologies (Lee & Johnstone, 2021;Plange & Alam, 2023;Truell, 2018). The barrage of recent legislation that seeks to control and attack bodily sovereignty, criminalize the unhoused, detain those forced into migration, expand surveillance, exploit natural resources with impunity, and diminish rights and democracy, reflects the rising movement of the right (