Race Reflections AT WORK
The place to reflect on all things inequality injustice and oppression at work. You tell us what is up and will do some thinking will do some research and will propose some possible solutions so that together we can make the workplace work for everyone. Your workplace dilemmas, your challenges and your queries at work. Join Guilaine Kinouani every first and third Monday of every month!To send us your queries, questions and dilemmas please email Atwork@racereflections.co.uk
Episodes
111 episodes
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...
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Episode 95
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16:57
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...
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Episode 94
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19:13
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 ...
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Episode 93
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22:57
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 ...
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Episode 92
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25:02
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...
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Episode 91
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16:55
Uninvited questions and queries around people’s racial lineage
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on some questions and queries that people of colour, particularly Black people experience, in relation to their “racial” lineage and heritage. How these function as racist micro-aggressions and in particular...
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Episode 90
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20:59
The simplistic binary justification in cases of race discrimination
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the binary polarisation of justification when it comes to accounting for workplace dynamics, particularly in cases of discrimination. Situations where for example an employee of colour makes a complaint a...
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Episode 89
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16:09
Covert Racism
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on how covert racism functions, in particular within the cultural context of the UK.She begins by defining covert racism as a form of racialised bias/discrimination that is not explicitly, overtly and...
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Episode 88
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29:23
How Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant
In today's episode Simone reflects on how Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant, linked in to Black Maternal Health Week that took place in April earlier this year, organised by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance:...
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Episode 87
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14:54
A few thoughts on the situation in Burkina Faso
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on a the situation in Burkino Faso and what we can learn from that in relation to the workplace. How we can see the ways that whiteness, colonialism, and coloniality are playing out and glean insights into t...
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Episode 86
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24:25
Why does the scapegoat become picked as the scapegoat?
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on a question she has received in multiple settings about how scapegoating operates, and why specific people might be targeted as scapegoats. This query is very prominent in the work she does and is a major ...
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Episode 85
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29:12
The merging of institutions with DEI policy and procedures
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on when Diversity, Equality and Inclusion policies, procedures, rules and regulations, become blockers to achieving, or advancing, diversity, equality and inclusion within the workplace. Or as she prefers to...
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Episode 84
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24:57
Students of colour and their invisible labour in higher education
In today's episode Simone reflects on the invisible and unpaid labour that students of colour do within higher education.They use the article The Invisible Labor of BIPOC Students by Stephanie Tavares:
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Episode 83
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14:00
More money
Today's episode is a follow up to this previous episode: Money, money, money: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/13872328Guilaine begins by reflecting on how her...
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Episode 82
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22:50
How Black workers experience higher education environments
In today's episode Simone reflects on how racism operates in higher education environments. They begin by thinking about their lived experiences within education both as a student and as a professor. They consider how “gifted and talented” prog...
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Episode 81
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14:41
The Black Mirror Phenomenon
In today's episode Guilaine begins by reflecting on how people who are racialised as Black who are introverts are treated at work, her thoughts on this are still cooking but she has been noticing more and more testimony and stories from Black p...
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Episode 80
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23:14
Tokenism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on the tokenism of corporations and other workplaces in the ways they treat Black people and people of colour. They begin by thinking about some scenes in season 2 of the TV series Severance which represent th...
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Episode 79
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13:55
Intuition
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on intuition. What it means to include or to exclude the guts, the body, knowing with the body, knowing outside of “rational paradigms” or whatever we choose to call these forms of understanding.
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Episode 78
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27:40
Pregnancy and racism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on pregnancy and racism at work, taking an intersectional lens, considering the experience of people who are pregnant and people who birth which includes more people than just cisgender women. So they begin wi...
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Episode 77
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16:30
Musings on the complex politics around race, Africa and the Miss Universe competition
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the treatment of Chidimma Adetshina in relation to the Miss Universe competition, specifically her treatment within South Africa in relation to her perceived nationality that resulted in her becoming Miss...
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Episode 76
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32:58
Ageism and racism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on ageism and how it intersects with other systems of oppression inside and outside of the workplace. They draw on their experience working with clients, their personal experience and some studies and articles...
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Episode 75
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16:08
Personal Position Statement on Palestine
In today's episode Guilaine shares a personal statement that encapsulates her personal position, politics and solidarity around the genocide happening in Palestine, and then reflects and expands on that.Her base position is that she stan...
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Episode 74
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25:06
Motherhood and/or parenthood and racism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on the experiences of people who go through pregnancy and birth whilst navigating and trying to balance that with employment.They begin by with a note about why they are using more inclusive terms to co...
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Episode 73
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17:01