Nigerian-American writer
Ijeoma Oluo (; born 1980) is an American writer. She is the author of So You Want to Talk About Race [ 10] and has written for The Guardian , Jezebel , The Stranger , Medium , and The Establishment , where she was also an editor-at-large .[ 11]
Born in Denton, Texas , and based in Seattle, Washington , in 2015, Oluo was named one of the most influential people in Seattle,[ 12] and in 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle.[ 13] Her writing covers racism , misogynoir , intersectionality , online harassment , the Black Lives Matter movement, economics , parenting , feminism , and social justice .[ 10] [ 14]
She gained prominence for articles critiquing race and the invisibility of women's voices, like her April 2017 interview with Rachel Dolezal , published in The Stranger .[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18]
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^ "Slog PM" by Charles Mudede . The Stranger. August 11, 2022.
^ "Let This Be the Last Time" by Allecia Vermillion . Seattle Met. April 13, 2022.
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^ a b Dubenko, Anna (April 21, 2017). "Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn't Miss" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 7, 2017.
^ "Goodbye! The Establishment ran from October 2015 to April 2019" . Medium . 2020-10-12. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020.
^ Lisa Wogan and Linda Morgan, "Seattle's Most Influential People of 2015" Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine , Seattle Magazine , November 2015
^ Norimine, Hayat; et al. (January 31, 2018). "The 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle" . Seattle Metropolitan . Archived from the original on February 4, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
^ Enjeti, Anjali (January 12, 2018). " 'I Might as Well Start a Fire': Author and 'Internet Yeller' Ijeoma Oluo on Talking About Race" . Rewire . Archived from the original on February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
^ Oluo, Ijeoma (April 19, 2017). "The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black" . The Stranger . Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved January 8, 2021 .
^ Hopper, Nate (April 20, 2017). "What Ijeoma Oluo's Interview With Rachel Dolezal Reveals About White Privilege" . Time . Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
^ Adeshina, Emmanuel (July 27, 2017). "Woman's Viral Tweets Calls Out White Liberal Women's Use of This Racially Coded Word" . ATTN: . Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
^ Radke, Bill ; Al-Sadi, Amina. "Rachel Dolezal 'erases black women.' Ijeoma Oluo takes the conversation back" . Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .