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
105 episodes
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 88
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29:23
How Black women and others experience discrimination at work while pregnant
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 pla...
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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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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