Sharon and I have a conversation about racism at work.  We intend to have Critical Conversations once a month about issues which have come up in the course of our work.  This episode and as I suspect may be the case with future conversations, relies heavily upon lived experiences and our honest reflections on some of what we have heard from colleagues, students and mentees and our sense-making of the experiences.

 

We begin our discussions by sharing our personal early realisations and experiences of racism.  We then go on to share 4 examples from our personal databases – thanks to colleagues Jo Williams and Shabnam Ahmed of the @SchoolofShabs who asked us to share some of what we’ve heard about experiencing racism at work.

• 13:00 – Don’t play the race card – ‘not holding onto our own truth………’
• 18:30 – Accents, aggressive black staff – ‘can we not bring expression and passion to our work……..’
• 29:15 – Relationships with line managers, lack of trust - ‘Have you really got my back........'
• 36:35 - Racism from white clients/service users

 

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