In today's episode Guilaine reflects and thinks back on the things that have stood out for her during 2022. What is she left with, what have been the biggest stories, the biggest moments and the biggest lessons?
She considers how the world cup final has brought up a lot for her and others around homelessness, homeness, displacement and migration. She engages with this from an autobiographical, auto-ethnographical position and discussed her lived experience here. What does it mean to black and French in relation to this theatre of sport?
Here TEDX talk on epistemic homelessness is of relevance to this topic: https://youtu.be/MoKBLPbkB5I
She also links these themes to the 'controversies" around the 2022 French film Tirailleurs (English name: Father & Soldier) and the interventions and comments it's star Omar Sy has made around racism.
Then she relates these ideas to the workplace.
Related to this she briefly thinks around the noise surrounding Meghan and Harry and the British Royal Family and how it has held up a mirror for the ways that Black women are treated within British culture particularly in workplaces and institutions.
This episode on Location of Disturbance and Scapegoating covered issues around Meghan Markle and the racism she faces: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/8127268
She then thinks about how the "return to normal" in relation to the "end" of the pandemic has thrown a spotlight on important work issues around exclusion and disability.
And she ends by thinking about how things have gone for Race Reflections in 2022.
Happy New Year from the Race Reflections Team!
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