Salons at Stowe Series

Salons at Stowe

Salons at Stowe Series

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

April 13, 2023 to July 6, 2023

For many white women, the idea of niceness is ingrained from an early age as a virtue. But what exactly does it mean to be nice? Does it require silence? An avoidance of anything supposedly unpleasant? An uncritical going with the flow?

Join Regina Jackson and Saira Rao, authors of White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, for deep, honest, unflinching conversation about the culture of niceness as part and parcel of white supremacy. Over four sessions, participants will explore the ways that self-identifying white women deny, defend, and deflect the presence of white supremacy in their everyday lives, and the ways in which they may perpetuate it. Presented by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, this Salons at Stowe series challenges white women to critically examine their participation in white supremacy as an important step in committing to the work of racial justice.

While designed with the demographic of white identifying women in mind, anyone fifteen years of age and older is welcome and may register for this program. REGISTRATION INCLUDES ALL FOUR SESSIONS and participants should plan to attend each one, though it is not required. A copy of the book, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, is required. Participants are encouraged to purchase a copy through the Stowe Center or through their favorite Black-owned or non-Black Person of Color-owned bookstore.

Cost: SOLD OUT

$16 to purchase and pick up at Museum Store

$20.50 to purchase book for mail delivery

Schedule:

April 13: Acknowledging Truth with Lisa Bond

May 11: Deflecting, Gaslighting, and Exceptionalizing with Regina Jackson

June 8: Whiteness, Whitesplaining, and Colorism with Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

July 6: Spiritual Bypassing and Toxic Positivity with Saira Rao

PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT

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Local Black and non-Black POC-owned bookstores:

The Key Bookstore, Hartford, CT

Bingham’s Books and Culture, New Haven, CT

Reader’s Block, Stratford, CT

Olive Tree Books-n-Voices, Springfield, MA

Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center, Philadelphia, PA

Café con Libros, Brooklyn, NY

The Bronx Is Reading, Bronx, NY

Hudson Valley Books for Humanity, Ossining, NY (Only available for pre-ordering)

Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Communiteria, New York, NY (Order online, pick up in store)

Kindred Thoughts, Bridgeport, CT (Book currently backordered)

_{Above Images Attribution: Jaymie Alexander, Jaymie’s Touch Photography}

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.