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
99 episodes
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 73
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17:01
Character Assassination
In today's episode following two queries on social media for her to do so, Guilaine reflects on the Police officer being found not guilty for the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba.First she thinks about the reasons she was hesitant to talk ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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23:32
Autism and racism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on autism, neurodivergence and racism in relation to work.They begin by talking about how and why they decided to cover this topic, reflecting on how they are autistic and work supporting autistic peopl...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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16:53
Musings on the duality and complexity of White Liberals
In today's episode 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 considers how experiencing the duality and complexity...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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17:09
COVID Pandemic, racism and ableism in the workplace
In today's episode Simone reflects on the COVID 19 pandemic and how it intersects with racism and ableism. They begin by thinking about the Olympics in relation to a lack of COVID mitigations and how we need to have conversations about COVID an...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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15:44
Should people of colour only receive therapy from people of colour?
In today's episode Guilaine continues her reflections on relationships between Black people, continuing on from her thoughts in this episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/15451884<...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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17:37
Anti-fat bias, fatphobia and racism at work
In today's episode Simone reflects on the relationships between racism, sexism (and other systems of oppression) and anti-fat bias. They begin by thinking about how the curves of people’s bodies are seen and understood through a very racist len...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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15:32
Tensions between Black employees
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on a question that has come up in her personal conversations with siblings, how do you navigate tensions between Black people in the workplace that might be described as being related to internalised anti-bl...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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17:32
Overqualified?
In today's episode Guilaine responds to, and reflects on, a dilemma from a listener who is a Black woman dealing with the way that workplaces tend to view her as overqualified, is having difficulty navigating these dynamics, has ended up moving...
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21:48
Extraction
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on extraction, the process of which touches on ancestral vulnerability, blackness, colonial dialectics and coloniality in the workplace and generally racialised dynamics, and echoes her recent trip to the Co...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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22:03
RE-RELEASE: Transference in the workplace
In this re-released episode first published on 3rd May 2021, Guilaine considers the influence of the past on the present by exploring the concept of transference, what it means and how it might manifest in the workplace. This episode is a...
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20:05
Introduction to the certificate in working with racial trauma and race based injuries using the foundation of group analysis
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the upcoming new course: the certificate in working with racial trauma and race based injuries using the foundation of group analysis. And in particular she focuses some attention on the large group that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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14:16
Social Media Policy Change
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on her relationship with social media. The way she has used social media in the past and transition she is making in how she uses it going forward, and the reasons she is changing how she uses Twitter (or X)...
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26:27
Reflections on a trip to the Congo
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on her 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.She begins with some context, first for her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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19:18
RE-RELEASE: Location of Disturbance and Scapegoating
In this re-released episode first published on 15th March 2021, Guilaine reflects on why institutions often turn on those who allege racism. She considers some of the group processes at play using as illustration the treatment of Meghan M...
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