Dear White Woman, Please Come Home

Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection

By: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams, Debby Irving - foreword

Narrated by: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams, Debby Irving

Dear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams's invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secrets, the kind of relationship where truth-telling is welcome, even when it hurts.

The idea for the book was born after attending a workshop that left her shaken and angry. In it, Kimberlee listened as white woman after white woman didn't understand how this or that comment, custom, behavior, or norm so negatively impacted women of color. Eventually she had an epiphany: How could white women know what we (Black and brown women) go through if we don't tell them?

In the resulting book she explores with vulnerability, sorrow, rage, and humor how white women, often despite best intentions, signal to her and other women of color to proceed with caution when in their presence. The letters' story arc, combined with end-of-chapter questions for deep reflection, offer white women insight to the damage done as well as to what it takes to "come home," to be trusted. The question throughout the book lingers until the very last letter: Will Kimberlee find her long lost "sister"? Will she want to "come home"? Be ready to "come home"?

©2021 Kimberlee Yolanda Williams (P)2023 Tantor

Two Enthusiastic Thumbs up!

What a beautifully written important book for white women to read! I appreciate the many illustrative stories. They will stick with me as I go to work at building my own community of women that support, love and lift one another. Thank you.

Moving and heartfelt

Important messages for white women to hear. Amazingly, it is delivered with loving kindness to the missing "sister" the author misses and hopes one day will show up for her. After reading this you will have tangible actions and guidance on how to show up for our sisters of color- those that are missing us and those that have given up on ever finding us.