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 an African woman talking about cross-cultural friendships and relationships between Black and White women. She discusses the video in question, and then shares some of her own experiences of these dynamics from within her working life. She thinks about how these dynamics play out in the workplace, concluding that racialised violence is also gendered and gendered violence also racialised.

The TicTok video:

White Minds: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/white-minds

Race Reflections -

White womanhood, intersectional violence and racialised boundaries: https://racereflections.co.uk/white-womahood-intersectional-violence-and-racialised-boundaries/

The White Female Gaze: A Formulation: https://racereflections.co.uk/the-white-female-gaze-a-formulation/

Previous episodes -

The Invisible Gaze of White Women: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/9739129-the-invisible-gaze-of-white-women

Toxic White Feminity: https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1623760/episodes/8807980-toxic-white-femininity

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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 personal history of her passion for fashion, considers the relation between Black Feminist thinking and joy, the erotic, desire, self authorship and survival, thinks about how when you look at injustice, atrocity and suffering it is an act of resistance to also focus on pleasure, beauty and life, and she finishes by considering how her interest in fashion challenges normative bias, racialised expectations and so it becomes an act of rebellion.

Guilaine’s updated biography: https://racereflections.co.uk/about-the-author/

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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 how when a companies commitment to diversity is shallow it is very easily dismantled, especially when aided by the media and the American President.

Articles referred to:

American Eagle doubles down on controversial ad campaign: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-backlash

Cracker Barrel reverses course and will scrap new logo after intense backlash: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/cracker-barrel-logo-apology

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