Thread by @rebel19

For my new followers: writing Surviving the White Gaze was enormously challenging and deeply freeing. I am grateful to have had the support and encouragement from literary giants, chosen family, people whose work I admire so tremendously. It meant everything to me.

Like @KieseLaymon: "Carroll shows, page after page, how the journey to, and through, survival, necessitates unrelenting interrogation of the nation's cauldron of innocence. Carroll has crafted a book as textured, layered and effective as any memoir penned in the 21st century."

And @DamonYoungVSB: "Carroll has devoted her life to sharing, developing, and amplifying our stories—and our story. And in Surviving the White Gaze she tells us hers with the same rigor, the same verve..the same radical vulnerability that reminds us why we're lucky to have her."

And @surlybassey: "Surviving the White Gaze cuts through all the gauzy platitudes and fragile myths we tell ourselves about family, race and belonging in this country...a must for anyone wanting to figure out how to build a better world, and how to survive this one."

And @nicolesjchung: "... 'Thankful' can be a loaded word for adoptees, but I am and have long been thankful for Rebecca Carroll's bravery and her honest, uncompromising voice."

I am grateful to have cultivated the emotional fortitude to write this book, and further grateful if it even just slightly begins to shift the narrative around transracial adoption in the broader context of the relentlessly cruel and inherently racist foundation of America.