Race Reflections AT WORK
Episodes
124 episodes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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 ...
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...