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For Immediate Release: Two Sisters Write about White Supremacy
Contact: Marisa Villarreal, media agent, 917-880-9893
Two white sisters take on racism, homophobia, and colonialism in the USA through first-person storytelling Their soon-to-be-released, Confessions of 'Good Girls' Born of White Supremacy, helps readers identify the everyday markers of white supremacy.
The authors invite readers to tell their own stories as the country tries to face the attacks on D.E.I. (diversity, equity, inclusion). Businesses, law firms, universities, and legislators are being coerced to stop reflecting on injustice in this country. Any effort to affirm or support people on the margins of society is viewed as giving unfair advantage, despite generations of exclusion and exploitation.
New York Times best seller, William Kent Krueger endorsed the book:
Most of us in the majority culture in the United States have grown up with little or no awareness of the insidious ways in which white supremacy has shaped our lives and our consciousness. With great insight and compelling candor, J. Ann Craig and Heather Craig-Oldsen, two sisters, examine their life journeys and the incidents and encounters with other cultures that have transformed their understanding of their own histories and the history of this nation. “Confessions of ‘Good Girls’ Born of White Supremacy” is a perfect read for any individual or group intent on exploring the issue of white supremacy and its negative influence on the lives of so many. I challenge anyone to read this book
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Bios
J. Ann Craig and Heather Craig-Oldsen have storied careers in social justice advocacy. They united to tell their stories of generational privilege through white supremacy.
Ann Craig is a feminist faith leader, writer, and advocate for racial justice. As a lifelong United Methodist, her career included 22 years in the General Board of Global Ministries. Monographs in the progressive faith world include Traditional Beliefs of United Methodists (English, Spanish, Korean); Retreats Manual; and Missionary Conferences of the United Methodist Church. Ann co-edited Family: Drawing the Circle Wide and more than 20 other books for national and international audiences. She wrote a monthly column for RESPONSE magazine for 15 years. Later, as the first director of faith for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), during the marriage equality campaign, Ann helped organize more than 20 national pro-LGBTQI+ faith groups for high impact media engagement. Her degrees are from Yale Divinity School and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Ann's 40 years in New York are bracketed by life in Nebraska and now Texas, with her partner, Marisa Villarreal.
Heather Craig-Oldsen is a writer and professor emerita of social work at Briar Cliff University, a Franciscan Catholic school. Her formal training was at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska. As a social worker and teacher, she wrote scores of curricula; book chapters (e.g., Chapter 15 in Rural Child Welfare Practice: Stories from the Field); a literary magazine short story (“Spiritual Walk to Hinhan Kaga” in Briar Cliff Review); and many successful grant proposals. Her multiple journal articles include the groundbreaking “Issues of Shared Parenting of LGBTQ Children and Youth in Foster Care: Preparing Foster Parents for New Roles,” co-authored with J. Ann Craig, and published in Child Welfare in 2006. Heather developed a training curriculum in the 1990s, PS: Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting, still used in Israel, Central America, and the United States. She facilitated the translation of the guide into Spanish and was privileged to be invited to work with several tribal nations in the cultural adaptation of the guide for Native Americans. Heather lives in a rural northeast Nebraska town where she writes for the local newspaper. Her successful proposal writing brings much needed financial resources to her part of the world.
