Arc of White Womanhood Lifework Session #12
White Women, Get Ready: Disrupting Patterns of White Womanhood in Our Social Justice Movements
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 3-5pm Pacific, 7-9pm Eastern
Lifework Sessions are a companion to The Arc of White Womanhood, a course for those socialized white & female, concerning intersections of race and gender. You do not have to have completed The Arc or previous LW sessions.
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.
About the Workshop 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.