White Women, Get Ready: Disrupting Patterns of White Womanhood in Our Social Justice Movements

Thursday, March 13, 2025, 7-8:30pm ET

A free, interactive online conversation

While this program will focus on white womanhood, it welcomes, and will be of value to, attenders of all genders and racial identities.

Join author, artist, and anti-racist organizer Amanda K Gross for an introductory session about her book, White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change. We will learn about the Mistress Syndrome healing justice frame, work with an embodied tool for interrupting patterns of white womanhood, and invite questions during a Q&A.

Inspired by Dr. Joy DeGruy's work on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, 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 white lady positioning to help upend these violent structures.

Meet our presenter!

Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer, a weaver of people, ideas, and threads, and author of White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change. As a mixed media artist and trained yoga instructor, she integrates creative embodied practices throughout her anti-racist organizing. Amanda is certified at the 200 hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School. She has an MA in Conflict Transformation and a PhD in Expressive Arts.

Our programs are offered FREE OF CHARGE and most of our presenters receive no payment. PLEASE help us to continue our programming with a donation. Any amount, large or small, will support us to continue offering vital anti-racist programs.

About the Anti-Racist Community Network (ARCN)

We are building a pathway to the emerging anti-racist, multiracial society…

The ARCN is a multiracial, anti-racist online community working to achieve racial justice and end white supremacy through activism and organizing. Our members want to be actively networking against racism and white supremacy. Through education and activism, we are working together for real and lasting societal change.

The Anti-Racist Community Network is owned and operated by the Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. Founded in 1995, we are known in anti-racist circles. Our operating philosophy for ARCN is to create a big tent. If you are comfortable working under our explicit expectation that you support racial justice and building anti-racist multiracial community, then you are welcome and we invite you to come.

Member Policy

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color may join the ARCN with a complimentary equity membership.

White people who cannot afford the cost to join may apply for a scholarship. White people with the means to pay are asked to do so, and we also welcome People of Color who would like to support us in addition to your presence by enrolling in a paid membership plan.

The subscription plan with an annual plan is in place and you can sign up now.