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Ijeoma Oluo
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·Dec 1, 2020

The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own Suicide

My writing about race and gender has made me a target for desperate white men who don’t want to change — The emails started coming in 2018, the same year my book So You Want to Talk About Race came out. They would usually arrive after I had posted an article on race or gender, but sometimes they would appear at random. I still remember the first one, which shook me. …

Book Excerpt

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The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own Suicide
The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own Suicide
Book Excerpt

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·May 27, 2020

Your Body Just Wants You to Get Through This

For almost two decades, I lived in a body that terrified me. That’s finally beginning to change. — When I was 20 years old, I found out that my blood was poisonous. I remember opening up an official-looking letter informing me that the cord blood I had donated after giving birth to my son tested positive for hepatitis C. …

Women

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Your Body Just Wants You to Get Through This
Your Body Just Wants You to Get Through This
Women

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May 14, 2020

Your Body Just Wants To Get Through This

When I was 20 years old, I found out that my blood was poisonous. I remember opening up an official-looking letter, informing me that the cord-blood that I had donated after giving birth to my son had tested positive for Hepatitis C. …

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Your Body Just Wants To Get Through This
Your Body Just Wants To Get Through This

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Aug 28, 2019

The Thing About Safety

Many of you have read about what happened to my family a few weeks ago. In the culmination of weeks of escalating abuse from white supremacist trolls, our home was swatted, endangering my 17 year old son who was home alone at the time. …

BlackLivesMatter

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BlackLivesMatter

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Jan 10, 2019

I Don’t Feel Like Celebrating

I was asked to give the keynote speech for King County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration held today. For those who were unable to attend, below is the speech I gave. “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” That is our theme…

BlackLivesMatter

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BlackLivesMatter

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Oct 5, 2018

We women can be anything. But can we be angry?

What are we going to do with this rage? That was a question I asked on social media today as the Senate moved one step closer to confirming a man accused of sexual assault, a man who screamed and lied and laid bare his extreme partisanship with no shame instead…

BlackLivesMatter

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We women can be anything. But can we be angry?
We women can be anything. But can we be angry?
BlackLivesMatter

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Jun 27, 2018

What is it Going to Take?

Justice Anthony Kennedy just announced his retirement and I’m gutted. I knew it was coming, this final “fuck you” to those of us who like having basic rights and protections, but I’m still just gutted. …

Politics

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Politics

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May 2, 2018

How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane

As the entirety of the internet seems to be discussing Kanye West’s most recent asshattery and all of black twitter seems to be heartily enjoying #IfSlaveryWasAChoice shenanegans, you, a concerned non-black person may be wondering…how do I join in this discussion? Maybe you were a big fan of Kanye’s music…

BlackLivesMatter

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How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
BlackLivesMatter

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Apr 18, 2018

On Starbucks & Corporate Accountability For Racial Bias

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from everyday people and from reporters and journalists about the recent controversy that Starbucks has found itself in after a patron recorded on her cell phone footage of two black men being handcuffed and taken to jail for the crime of sitting in a…

BlackLivesMatter

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BlackLivesMatter

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Mar 23, 2018

The Anger of the White Male Lie

I’m reading an email from a white man. It is about 15 paragraphs of poorly written vitriol, telling me in far too many words about how wrong I am. About everything. I’m wrong about feminism. It’s unnecessary. And by the way, the wage gap doesn’t exist. I’m even more wrong…

Racism

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Racism

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