InGENbyIjeoma Oluo·Dec 1, 2020The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own SuicideMy writing about race and gender has made me a target for desperate white men who don’t want to changeA response icon78A response icon78
InZORAbyIjeoma Oluo·May 27, 2020Your Body Just Wants You to Get Through ThisFor almost two decades, I lived in a body that terrified me. That’s finally beginning to change.A response icon15A response icon15
Ijeoma Oluo·May 14, 2020Your Body Just Wants To Get Through ThisWhen 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…A response icon14A response icon14
Ijeoma Oluo·Aug 28, 2019The Thing About SafetyMany of you have read about what happened to my family a few weeks ago. In the culmination of weeks of escalating abuse from white…A response icon24A response icon24
Ijeoma Oluo·Jan 10, 2019I Don’t Feel Like CelebratingI was asked to give the keynote speech for King County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration held today. For those who were unable to…A response icon4A response icon4
Ijeoma Oluo·Oct 5, 2018We women can be anything. But can we be angry?What are we going to do with this rage?A response icon25A response icon25
Ijeoma Oluo·Jun 27, 2018What 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…A response icon49A response icon49
Ijeoma Oluo·May 2, 2018How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their LaneAs the entirety of the internet seems to be discussing Kanye West’s most recent asshattery and all of black twitter seems to be heartily…A response icon160A response icon160
Ijeoma Oluo·Apr 18, 2018On Starbucks & Corporate Accountability For Racial BiasI’ve gotten a lot of questions from everyday people and from reporters and journalists about the recent controversy that Starbucks has…A response icon32A response icon32
Ijeoma Oluo·Mar 23, 2018The Anger of the White Male LieI’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…A response icon553A response icon553
