S2 EP4 · BLACK WORLD NEWS: Attempted Trump Assassination, US Violence · GUILAINE KINOUANI (Trigger Warning: Racialised Trauma): Working as a Black Female Clinician, Afrikan Griots, "Living While Black," White Minds," Fanon, Race Trauma Certificate + Mor
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CONTENT WARNING: Racialised Trauma
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In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews makes plain Trump's so-called assassination attempt (leaving one person dead and two wounded) and as Malcolm said of Kennedy's assassination, "it's chickens coming home to roost." However, it's not surprising as America is founded and sustained on political violence: the first violence of the genocide of native people, the second violence of enslaving us, and the third violence of kicking the British out with the American Revolutionary War. Much of the violence of the world today can be traced back to the US and Western imperialism. This is America, this is the West. This. Is. What. The System. Is.
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In this week's official guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Guilaine Kinouani a leading voice in Black psychiatry, psychology, and psychosocial studies in the UK. They talk about her work as a clinician, re-traumatizing mental health systems, being dissuaded from working as a clinician as well as dealing with her own trauma as a clinician with over 15 years of research and study including her books Living While Black and White Minds. They talk about the origin story of Race Reflections which started as a blog (now a social enterprise) about not being silenced, and how it developed. They highlight the Certificate in Working with Racial Trauma training.
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Guilaine Kinouani is a UK-based Paris-born woman of Afrikan (Congolese) descent; an award-winning critical and radical psychologist and group analyst, scholar, activist, and "[she] likes to think…a bit of a fashion connoisseur." Guilaine is also a current PhD (her second doctorate!) researcher, in psychosocial studies, and founder of the social enterprise, Race Reflections.
She's written three books: Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma (2021 + Guardian Book of the Year), White Minds Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance (2023), and a third book Creative Disruption: Psychosocial Scholarship as Praxis is expected in November 2024.
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and Political Violence Waged by the U.S.
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/assassination-attempt-donald-trump-and-political-violence-waged-us
The Jakarta Method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method
Book Review: The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2020/07/29/book-review-the-jakarta-method-washingtons-anticommunist-crusade-and-the-mass-murder-program-that-shaped-our-world-by-vincent-bevins/
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366
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GUEST LINKS
Certificate in Working With Racial Trauma: A Conversation With Helping Professionals (Sign Up)
https://racereflections.co.uk/events/open-day-certificate-in-working-with-racial-trauma-and-race-based-injuries-using-the-foundation-of-group-analysis/
Certificate in Working With Racial Trauma: A Conversation With Helping Professionals - Prospectus
https://racereflections.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CWRT-JUNE-2024-w-dates.pdf
Certificate in Working With Racial Trauma & Race Based Wounds Using the Foundation of Group Analysis – Curriculum
https://racereflections.co.uk/certificate-in-working-with-racial-trauma-race-based-wounds-using-the-foundation-of-group-analysis/
Guilaine Biography
https://racereflections.co.uk/about-the-author/
Living While Black The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442992/living-while-black-by-kinouani-guilaine/9781529109436
White Minds Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance By Guilaine Kinouani
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/white-minds
Epistemic homelessness | Guilaine Kinouani | TEDxUCLWomen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKBLPbkB5I&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fracereflections.co.uk%2F
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THE HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEEDS YOU
Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
(Marcus Garvey Centre + Nicole Andrews Community Library, Birmingham, UK)
https://www.blackunity.org.uk/
CAP25 - Convention of Afrikan People - Gambia - May 17-19, 2025 (Everyone's Welcome)
On Malcolm X's 100th birthday, the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity is bringing together those in Afrika and the Diaspora who want to fulfill Malcolm's legacy and build a global organization for Black people. This is an open invitation to anyone.
https://make-it-plain.org/convention-of-afrikan-people/
BUF - Black United Front
Global directory of Black organizations. This will be hosted completely free of charge so if you run a Black organization please email the name, address, website, and contact info to mip@blackunity.org.uk to be listed.
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Guest: @living_while_black_(IG) @Racereflections (X) @RRDirector (X)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (X)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Blog) www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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Make it Plain is the Editorial Wing of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity
