Join Parentheses Books and author Amanda K Gross for a reading of her new book, White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change.
Amanda K Gross will read from her book as she intimately reflects on her attempts to divest from whiteness and mobilizes toward co-creating healthier, more authentic relationships, cultures, and communities.
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.
About the author:
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 is completing 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.
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.