A necessary listen for all white women

Honest, challenging, thought provoking, and much needed. This book will ask you to look at yourself and your behaviour in a way you likely won’t have done before. It’s not easy. But you must do it. I needed to do it. We all need to do it.

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Refreshing

My inner white woman had to tune out on occasions because it hit too close to home on my way into work.

This book has articulated for me some awkard behaviour I observe and left me feeling odd from interactions colleagues, heads of departments in the child care sector.

I'm based in a part of the world where the mentality communicated silently and more often politically is: "foreigners" already here should be grateful and don't complain about anything and most definitely not racism. The rest of the visibly foreign foreigners are even more unwelcome or more often than not, met with the saviour complex, silence or hostility.

American history occurs in a vacuum. As does the insidious aftermath of European colonialism. The blank people of Belgium, and Europe at large, are nice, intelligent, meritoriously entitled, innocent and right.

I really appreciated Regina and Saira's voices and sisterhood. I felt seen and heard and spoken up for as they outed all versions of supposed fragility.

This book has inspired me even though I feel unsafe at every turn because of my proximity to nice white women. Fortunately I have one close friend who is doing the work, without the trumpets and beds, medals, whistles and celebrations 🍾 She is genuine and has skin in the game. She's going to love this book for what it will awaken in her.

I'm keeping my eyes heart and hands open for initiatives like this to take shape. Kindness to kne another without me needing to be in the room.

Thank you both.

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It’s not easy but listen hard, all white women need to

It’s not easy but listen hard, all white women need to. I was certain I was not racist, not even close. Now I understand better, much better: white peoples are all racist, it’s baked in. Whether we wake up to this and truly do something about this and white super is up to white people.

I’m more than grateful for the authors’ direct approach, they pull no punches and as other reviewers have said it needs to be this way.

The fact the authors jointly narrate this, with no BS made it impossible for me to not take seriously. They call out so much that needs to be called out about white culture in general, there was much relief in this. There are a couple of times where Regina is laughing as she reads because the examples of white woman racism are so preposterous, these and other moments made this reading so alive and bought the messages home good and proper. I’m grateful for their candour, this book and the Race2Dinner initiative and Deconstructing Karen film.

I highly recommend listening to (and reading in print) Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey who beautifully speaks to the damage White Supremacy and the capitalist system have done and continue to met out. Her manifesto is a god send to us all, if we pay attention….

Next step real action.

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Brilliant!

Please listen, the direct manner of it is needed, I got so much out of it and will continue to.
I’m grateful to the authors for creating it

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Powerful and honest

I enjoyed the personal stories and passionate, eloquent delivery of the narrators. White privilege blinded me to a lot of the structural barriers and toxic interpersonal dynamics that are apparent in their stories. Listening to this book inspired feelings of frustration, anger, disillusionment - but also great hope and inspiration for a future of racial justice.

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Very well narrated by the others, must read especially for the titular white women

I really enjoyed this book, as a half white half Asian woman it was such a good read. I learned a lot of new things, but also recognized a lot of my personal experiences with racism. I would really recommend this to any white woman who wants - and should educate themselves (and to women in general though this can be triggering for BIPOC). The authors make this a great narrated listen as well. Not the monotonous narrator voices you often hear in audiobooks, but like they’re right there with you talking to you. Impactful!

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