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While social work consists largely of women, our knowledge base, and thus professional identity, has been dominated by Western androcentric approaches. The legacy of these approaches continues to impact contemporary education, research, and practice by privileging the Eurocentric knowledge paradigms and neoliberal sociopolitical forces that entrench the patriarchal sexual division of labour, all of which frame social work practice. Amid these structural constraints, this research is a feminist exploration of the experience of women social workers in Australia developing their professional identity. It is guided by the following question: <br/><br/>What are women social workers’ lived experiences of professional identity in the context of patriarchy, colonisation, and neoliberalism in Australia?<br/><br/>A transformative conceptual framework was developed for the study, consisting of a radical feminist, decolonising ontology and postconventional epistemology, with disruptive and transformative aims. Emerging from the framework, a feminist decolonising participatory action research methodology was employed, using focus group methods informed by collectivist and democratic values. Ten women social workers from diverse backgrounds participated in six online focus group meetings over 9 months during 2021. Data were analysed using a thematic-informed narrative method guided by narrative production methodology. Consistent with the feminist participatory method, findings were collaboratively developed with participants dynamically engaged in critical meaning-making. Co-situated, I then engaged in diffractive analysis, a technique for interpreting data as narratives, where the interlocutor is the site of knowledge production.<br/><br/>The findings indicate that women social workers experience systemic sex- and gender-based oppression in their professional identity; however, they are not passive agents in this construction and actively engage in resisting these experiences. Three interwoven feminist processes emerged: collective organising, consciousness-raising, and acts of resistance. Collective organising created a relational, woman-centric space grounded in solidarity and a women’s standpoint to reclaim onto-epistemic agency and centre decolonial feminist knowledges in challenging the Eurocentric professionalisation of social work. Consciousness-raising enabled participants to develop testimonial competence to politically situate their experiences, identify structural violence, and name the emotional burdens of navigating professional identity in oppressive contexts. Such awareness cultivated discursive authority for hermeneutical justice, where acts of resistance emerged. Through collective consciousness and feminist praxis, testimonial justice was fostered by acts of naming, witnessing, truth-telling, everyday resistance and refusal, and re-storying. <br/><br/>The research exposes the systemic gendered oppression entrenched in experiences of social work identity and demonstrates the transformative power of centring a decolonising, radical feminist paradigm. Implications of the findings advocate for onto-epistemic and sex-based justice, reclamation of women-centric discourses and knowledges, and feminist praxis in reshaping social work identity, pedagogy, and the broader professional domain. Together, these findings provide insight into how women social workers can collectivise to reclaim and transform professional identity to be more authentically aligned with the espoused values of the profession.