Race Reflections AT WORK
Episodes
131 episodes
Whiteness at school
In today's episode Dave reflects on their lived experience as a white person navigating school life and the things that might be able to tell us about schools as a sight of patriarchal, hetronormative and racialised violence.Dave’s past ...
Racism faced by Indigenous Workers at the Indian Oil and Gas Canada Company
In today's episode Simone reflects on the class action taken by indigenous former employees of IOGC alleging systemic racism, abuse of power and workplace misconduct at this federal agency.Discrimination class action lawsuit against Indi...
RE-RELEASE: Musings on the duality and complexity of White Liberals
In this re-released episode first published on 7th October 2024, Guilaine reflects on White Liberals, and on her past inclination to take people straightforwardly based on the words they write and the face they present to the world. She conside...
Racial Trauma and Decolonial Thinking
In today's episode Guilaine, who is in the writing up stage of her PHD thesis, reflects on her journey and the reasons why she is launching a new Race Reflections space to explore racial trauma and decolonial thinking. This will be a semi open ...
RE-RELEASE: Reflections on a trip to the Congo
In this re-released episode first published on 6th May 2024, Guilaine reflects on her (then) recent trip to the Congo. This topic was asked for when she polled people on twitter/x to find out what they wanted her to speak on for this episode.
RE-RELEASE: Extraction
In this re-released episode first published on 1st June 2024, Guilaine reflects on extraction, the process of which touches on ancestral vulnerability, blackness, colonial dialectics and coloniality in the workplace and generally racialised dyn...
2025 Surveys on Racism in the UK
In today's episode Simone reflects on the findings of three surveys on racism in the UK that were released in 2025: Workforce Race Equality Standard Report 2025 from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Race and disability in the aftermath of the BAFTA awards 2026
In today's episode Simone reflects on the aftermath of the intersection of disability and race/racism at the BAFTA awards 2026. Specifically the institutional choice to air the involuntary words shouted by John Davidson, a white Tourette's synd...
Racism within US disease control and food safety
In today's episode Simone reflects on some issues surrounding the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), its employees, its roll-back of food safety surveillance and that decisions inherent racism.They begin with this article as a j...
Community Engagement, Development and Research
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on her experience of community engagement, development and research, building on a post she wrote about this topic on Race Reflections. She particularly considers her earliest experiences in terms of her eng...
Cross-cultural Friendship Between Black Women and White Women
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on what she calls White Women Gaze. This is a topic she has thought about before in her work on Race Reflections and in her book White Minds. She was inspired to speak on this by watching a tictok video of a...
Fashion, beauty, aesthetics and resistance
In today's episode Guilaine responds to a question about her updated biography, specifically her interest in fashion, beauty and aesthetics and how that informs or relates her academic and clinical work. She goes over the pers...
Sydney Sweeney, American Eagle, Cracker Barrel and the US advertising industry's concerning lean into White Supremacy
In today's episode Simone reflects on the “brand driven culture war” supposedly ignited by Sydney Sweeney’s racist advertising campaign with American Eagle. They also look at the flip-flopping on Cracker Barrel’s choice of logo. They consider h...
100 Episodes of Race Reflections AT WORK
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the first 100 episodes(!) of Race Reflections AT WORK. She talks about what she’s learned from the process, considers some areas to develop, and picks out her top three episodes using the criteria of whic...
New Year Reflections
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the last year, both for Race Reflections as an institution and for herself personally, and thinks forward towards the year to come.Wishing you a Happy New Year from all at Race Reflections!S...
Large Group On Whiteness At Work
In today's episode Guilaine talks about Race Reflection’s Large Group on Whiteness At Work that starts in February. She reflects on the groups aim to help understand the impact of Whiteness, race discrimination and race inequality on wellbeing,...
Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring
It’s nearly the end of 2025 so with Christmas and New Years Eve coming up soon what better moment than to think about things that glitter, and what goes in to making them? In today's episode Simone does a deep-dive into Taylor Swift...
Differential treatment of Black people in the workplace
In today's episode Guilaine responds to an email sent to her about the differential treatment of people of colour in the workplace, and why Black people are treated more harshly. This question was a response to a thread she made about the ideal...
Idealisation of Black people at work
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on how, seemingly paradoxically, when Black people (and other marginalised groups) are idealised in the workplace it can put them at risk, and result in their denigration and/or devaluation.She begins...
Reflections on Race Reflections Foundation Course in Group Analysis and suggestions on how to prepare for an application
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on what she has learnt from the first year of this course and offers some advice for how people might prepare for the course, particularly for people who are new to analytic thinking and practice.She ...
How Black Doulas experience discrimination at work
In today's episode Simone continues on their reflections around Black Maternal Health Week which took place in April earlier this year, organised by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance: https://blackmamasmatt...
Opportunities for support within Race Reflections Foundation Course in Group Analysis that centres racial trauma
In today's episode Guilaine responds to some queries and questions about accessing our foundation course in Group Analysis centring racial trauma.She begins by outlining what the course consists of and celebrating its certification by th...
How do you manage the tension between being a public figure with the expectation that analytic theorists should be distant and not self disclose?
In today's episode Guilaine responds to a query that came up when she recently received an honorary doctorate related to her contribution to analytic and psychodynamic theory and psychodynamic and analytic practice, specifically in relation to ...
Linguistic distortion created by racism
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on how the perception of language and linguistics can become dislocated through a primitive colonial imaginary to the point where people do not hear language as it is.She presents a hypothesis around ...
Impact faced by workers of colour due to the Trump Administration banning DEI initiatives in the United States
In today's episode Simone reflects on how even though DEI initiatives end to fall short of meaningfully achieving their aims, operating as lip service for corporations, banning them only creates more harm.They talk about how the US court...