A book to help you understand, unpack, and dismantle the oppressive system of white womanhood.
White Women, Get Ready:
How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change
About the Book
White Women, Get Ready tells the story of how we white ladies have been groomed to uphold overlapping systems of oppression, the harmful multigenerational impact, and how we can use our unique white lady positioning to help upend these violent structures.
Join author Amanda K Gross as she intimately reflects on her attempts to divest from whiteness and mobilizes toward co-creating healthier, more authentic relationships, cultures, and communities.
Photo by Mike Belleme
About The Author
Amanda K Gross
Amanda K Gross (she/her) was born in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, to two white Mennonites. Raised in the social justice legacies of Dr. King and Anabaptism, she was also raised to be a good little white girl in a system built for her advantage. For the past two decades, she has committed to the life, study, and embodied work of social justice.
Certified by YogaRoots On Location's Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School, Amanda has an MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and a PhD in Expressive Arts at the European Graduate School where her research investigates how arts and culture can support white settlers in sustaining the life-long work of anti-racism and decolonization.
She lives in Asheville, North Carolina on the unceded land of the Cherokee people.
May these stories contribute to our healing.
The book White Women, Get Ready is one part of a larger body of collaborative work that emerged from the call within Black-led multiracial and multicultural spaces for white people, and white women in particular, to organize our own. This book was conceived out of multi-racial organizing community, has been nurtured, edited, and critiqued within relationships, and is now being birthed, read, and discussed as one interconnected part of ongoing movement work. For inquires about the book’s inception, process, and business model, please email us at whitewomengetready@gmail.com.
White Women, Get Ready in Community
This book was funded by people who believe in
the possibilities of healing and anti-racist change.
with publishing consultation by Otterpine, LLC
Thanks to the generous contributions of:
Brook Abrams, Amy Akey, Bryan Alexander, Cameron Altaras, Teira Atwood-Smith, Alissa Bango, anna bango, Emily Bango, Laura Boll, Hayley Booterbaugh, Mary Beth Bourke, Maria Bowman, Donna Brady, Lynn Burnett, Chris Callaway, Dominique Carino, Sylvia Cavanaugh, etta cetera, John Chovan, Kenneth & Bernadine Clark, Courtney Coston, Victoria Cugini, Cythera, Bethany Davey, Odessa Deffenbaugh, Dara DeLeon, Kimberley Didion, Emily Donato, Alice Dixson, Andi Dube, Kirsten Ervin, Barbara Escalante, Cindy Esselstyn, Carolyn Fallert, Alexandra Fletcher, Felicia Savage Friedman, Maggie Frost, Robin Funsten, sheba gittens, GlassHouse Coalition, Liza Gleason, Laura Graham, Karen Gross, Conrad and Morgan Kraybill Gross, Caryn Hanna, Amy Hartsell, Sandra Hartmannsgruber, Lora Hawk, Jill Heine, Jamie Herron, Alisha Hershberger, Margaret High, Maria Holsopple, Mary Horst, Cindy Hunter, Shabrae Jackson, Rebecca Janzen, Liane Jensen, Patricia Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Diane Ryan Katz, Phoebe Kilby, Tammy Knorr, Kari Kopp, Becky Kurtz, Beth Kurtz, Nura Laird, Stephanie Lassalle, Dawn Lehman, Hattie Lehman, Leni, Kathryn Liss, Nicole Lopez, Jen Lumanlan, Acree Macam, Mikena Manspeaker, Melanie Martín, George Marx, Chelsea Mast, Merle Mast, Penny Mateer, Mary and Ray Maynard, Margaret McAlister, Trae McCarthy, Melissa McCollister, Kelsey McGarry, Jordan McKay, Rhoda Miller, Kit Molina-Nauert, Christine Moonbeam, Jenna Montgomery, Kathleen Moore, Amanda Monroe, Shannon Musgrove, Neighborhood Church, Nancy Nance, Thomas Nance, Kendra Nissley, Karla Nolt, Wendy Nuzzo, Lissa Olson, Jenn O’Reilly, Cole Parke-West, Pamela Parson, Nancy Perkins, Dani Pierce, Donnie Day Pomeroy, Ed Prestemon, Kathryn Reed, Shelly Regner, Latrelle Renaud, Kevin M Ressler, Kurt Rosenberger, Katherine Ross-Kinzie, Jean Rowe, Alyssa Sacora, Karriem Sami, Annette Sandberg, Rose Schepps, Brenda Shelby, Justin Shenk, Dale Shoemaker, Virginia Showalter, Lynn Smith, Julie Sommers, Zoe Sorrell, Amie Sparks, Kimberly Spears, Julie Stauffer, Abby Striebig, Kali Stuhl, Grace Styer, Amy Thomas, Nancy Thompson, Dee Thorn, Cheryl Towers, Krista Townsend, Jeanne Troyer, Hana Uman, Valerina, Maria Vann, Mary Lou Weaver Houser, Benny Wheat, Tiffany Wilhelm, Joe Wilkerson, Oriane Wilkerson, Rose and Steve Wilkerson, Chelsea Wilkinson, Pam Wolfe, Karen Womack, Mary and Tim Yoder, Patricia Yoder, Howard Zehr, Larry and Dawn Zook, and many other anonymous contributors!