RSVP to whitewomengetready@gmail.com to attend the Jan 12th Info Session
You are invited to join a White Women, Get Ready winter book discussion group with local author Amanda K Gross (EMU '07, MA, PhD) intended to grapple with anti-racism efforts specifically geared toward identifying the silent role white women play in maintaining systemic racism.
About White Women, Get Ready
Inspired by Dr. Joy DeGruy's work on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome—and used with her blessing—White Women, Get Ready tells the story of how white ladies have been groomed to uphold overlapping systems of oppression, the harmful multigenerational impact, and how we can use our unique positioning to help upend and heal from these violent structures.
About the Author
Amanda was born in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, to two white Mennonites. Raised in the social justice legacies of Dr. King and her Anabaptist ancestors, she was also raised to be a good little white girl in a system built for her advantage. Over the past two decades, she has committed to the life, study, and embodied work of social justice, including studies in Restorative Justice, Conflict Transformation, and Sociology at Eastern Mennonite University, apprenticing with YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School and the People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond’s Undoing Racism Workshop, and organizing with Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Black Girls Equity Alliance. Amanda has a PhD from the European Graduate School examining the role of arts and culture in sustaining white settlers in long term decolonization and anti-racist efforts. Follow her on instagram and facebook.
This book 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. Conceived out of multi-racial organizing community,White Women, Get Readyhas been nurtured, edited, and critiqued within relationships, and is now being birthed, read, and discussed as one interconnected part of ongoing movement work.