White Women, Get Ready

Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer, educator, and director of Mistress Syndrome, from which she organizes with fellow status quo and passing white ladies to heal from, disrupt, and transform the legacies of white womanhood. Certified at the 200-hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location's AntiRacist Raja Yoga School, Amanda has an MA in Conflict Transformation and is a PhD candidate in Expressive Arts where she has conducted autoethnographic research with family members about how arts and culture can support white settlers in sustaining anti-racist and decolonizing efforts. Amanda recently relocated to the Appalachian South on the stolen lands of the Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee) and is reconnecting with the Southern racial justice organizing traditions within which she was raised. Her other writings include contributions to Resistance: Confronting Violence, Power, and Abuse within Peace Churches and Bodies & Beliefs: Purity Culture and the Rhetoric of Religious Trauma (forthcoming). Find out more about Mistress Syndrome and other resources at mistresssyndrome.com.