Rhino Crash 2.0
Rhino's Read: A Conversation with
Author Amy Julia Becker ’94
Join former Taft English Teacher Roger Stacey as he chats with author and speaker Amy Julia Becker '94
about her book, White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege.
Thursday, September 24 at 7pm EDT
White Picket Fences is a memoir acknowledging the harm of privilege and responding to that harm with love. Beginning with her childhood in North Carolina and tracing her life through her years as a student at Taft and Princeton and later a mom, Amy Julia explores her role in a culture that constructs dividing walls around racial identity, ability, and economic status. As she reflects on her daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, Amy Julia considers how embracing our common humanity can begin to heal the cultural divisions of ability, race, ethnicity, and social class. She invites readers “to consider the reality of privilege, the benefits and wounds that come from it, and whether we can respond to it with generosity, humility, and hope."
Participants are not required to read the book prior to the session.