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
85 episodes since 2021
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...
September 15, 2024
•
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<...
September 01, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 68
•
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...
August 18, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 67
•
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...
August 04, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 66
•
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...
July 14, 2024
•
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...
June 30, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 64
•
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...
June 16, 2024
•
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 ...
June 02, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 63
•
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)...
May 19, 2024
•
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 ...
May 05, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 61
•
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...
April 14, 2024
•
14:14
Consent
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on consent, in relation to her research on whiteness, her lived experience, and the implications of this issue within the workplaceShe begins with a basic definition of consent, then she...
March 31, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 60
•
19:44
Feedback!
In today's episode Guilaine reflects around a listeners query asking "how do we get mangers to understand how biased they are when it comes to the feedback that they give to employees of colour." After briefly questioning the termin...
March 17, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 59
•
19:35
Whitelash
In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the phenomenon and social dynamic of what has been called whitelash, a combination of white/whiteness and backlash. The term was coined by African-American journalist Van Jones to describe the...
March 03, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 58
•
20:50
Surviving Whiteness at Work
In today's episode Guilaine continues to look forwards towards Race Reflections path in 2024 and beyond. She announces a future book that will be coming from Race Reflections, our first book as an organisation.That book is Surviving Whit...
February 18, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 57
•
17:14
Race Reflections in 2024
In today's episode Guilaine looks forwards towards Race Reflections path in 2024.She starts by wishing everyone a Happy New Year, followed by a brief reflection on global violence, specifically in Gaza and Congo, a topic she will return ...
February 04, 2024
•
Season 1
•
Episode 56
•
20:25
RE-RELEASE: Podcasting and Power
In this re-released episode first published on 4th April 2022, we explore the relationship between podcasting and power, both how podcasting has replicated and interacted with existing power systems, and how it offers a radical spac...
January 21, 2024
•
34:14
RE-RELEASE: Thinking critically about feelings
In this re-released episode first published on 21st February 2022, Guilaine reflects on the particular dynamic where a person with power reacts to accusations of structural harm by saying that they feel unsafe. She considers how ...
January 07, 2024
•
21:48
Appearance
In today's episode Race Reflections' Associate Disruptor Simone reflects on workplace issues surrounding people's appearance, how appearance is policed, and how that relates to respectability politics and white supremacy.They first disc...
December 17, 2023
•
Season 1
•
Episode 55
•
19:12
Thinking about feeling, feeling about thinking
In today's episode Guilaine takes us on a freeform reflection and roundup of her thinking and feeling in 2023.From the publication of her second book White Minds to the writing and collating of her third book Creative Disruption she shar...
December 03, 2023
•
Season 1
•
Episode 54
•
17:02
RE-RELEASE: Toxic White Femininity
In this re-released episode first published on 5th July 2021 Guilaine takes the Tiktok trend of "white women fake crying" as a jumping-off point to consider a slightly different take on intersectionality in relation to white womanhood. Sh...
November 19, 2023
•
20:29
Money, money, money
In today's episode Guilaine expands on her thinking around money which she has previously covered a little on the podcast and on the Race Reflections website. She specifically reflects on the relationship between money and attachment, consideri...
November 05, 2023
•
Season 1
•
Episode 53
•
27:23
Locating Anxiety & Staying Safe
This episode of Race Reflections at Work is about managing anxiety with the help of holistic/ alternative approaches while at work/ in employment, as well as some suggestionsTW: Admin, Comms and Engagement Lead Dionne talks about the tri...
October 15, 2023
•
Season 1
•
Episode 52
•
9:40
Proximal Ambivalence
In today's episode Guilaine explore and defines the concept of proximal ambivalence and proximal dynamics. She begins with the recent incident covered in the news that highlighted issues of anti-blackness within communities of colour, specifica...
October 01, 2023
•
Season 1
•
Episode 51
•
20:28
RE-RELEASE: Black Authority in the Workplace
This is re-released episode first published on 5th April 2021 hosted by Guilaine: There are many challenges black leaders must contend with, that is for certain... In this episode we consider why black authority in the workplace co...
September 18, 2023
•
16:32