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"Embrace your radical, authentic self with this poetic self-help memoir.""Do you want to be a White girl, Ronnie?"" ""I want to be free."" Two identities struggle to coexist in Ronnie Gladden's body, brain, and soul. On the outside, they are Black and male. Inside, a repressed White female identity begs for release and is ready to break the status quo. Grappling with double-binary thinking, an abusive father, and childhood trauma, they imprison their inner self to stay safe from the world. But now the time has finally come to set every part of themselves free. An identity management resource and self-help memoir for teens and young adults, White Girl Within shares award-winning educator Ronnie Gladden's powerful true story of challenging complex intersectional identity while liberating their collective self from oppressive cultural shackles. Through creative letters, stirring life experiences, enlightening social critique, and an interactive resource section, uncover how to embrace the diversity inside of you and the diversity living outside of us all. Get ready to discover How true identity transcends race, gender, and sexuality-and provides the freedom to live the life you choose. A heartfelt, honest perspective of child and adolescent trauma, relationship issues, and even the racial history that shape nuanced identities. How transgender and transracial (or ""transgracial"") identities can coexist within an individual. The power of pop culture and arts immersion to buffer complex interactions involving intersectional identities. How to begin your own letter-writing campaign and foster a more authentic self-expression. You are more than a color, a gender, and an intersection. Free your repressed truth and rebirth your radical, authentic self with White Girl Within."

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I loved how Ronnie Gladden brought the reader into [the] self-reflections...[they] definitely have the experience to share. -Cameron Samuels, Featured on NBC in support of banned books This book offers new, radical, and mind-changing territory. Be prepared to question anything you've ever taken for granted and then some. Race and gender are all up for grabs... While this book goes where angels fear to tread, it does so with an angel's step... If any book can advance the discourse about transcending boundaries this book can. But more than this, Ronnie Gladden adds love to the mix. I'm so impressed. -Mithu M. Sanyal, Author, Identiti An unprecedented and moving first-person narrative about growing up transgracial- both transgender and transracial. With candor and courage, White Girl Within lays bare the struggle and journey of an inner White girl who clamors for self-expression behind a Black male exterior. A must-read for anyone whose identity remains socially unrecognized. -Rebecca Tuvel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rhodes College

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Dr. Ronnie Gladden is an international speaker, actor, and tenured college professor. They regularly speak about identity, diversity, and inclusion for K-12 schools, universities, and nonprofits. In addition to advising student LGBTQ+ organizations, Dr. Gladden has implemented critical diversity and inclusion training curricula and dynamic speaking series across multiple campuses. Their approach centers on fostering identity reconciliation, empowerment, and independent representation via authentic, transformative, and diverse leadership practices. Learn more at www.ronniegladden.com and www.whitegirlwithin.com.

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