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Ijeoma Oluo
History & Commentary
Ijeoma Oluo is an American writer who focuses on racism, misogynoir, intersectionality, online harassment, and social justice.
Biography
Ijeoma Oluo (born 1980 in Denton, Texas) is an American writer based in Seattle, Washington. She has written for The Guardian, Jezebel, The Stranger, Medium, and The Establishment, where she served as editor-at-large. In 2015 she was named one of the most influential people in Seattle, and in 2018 was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle.
Her writing covers racism, misogynoir, intersectionality, online harassment, the Black Lives Matter movement, economics, parenting, feminism, and social justice. She gained prominence for pieces critiquing race and the invisibility of women's voices, notably her April 2017 interview with Rachel Dolezal published in The Stranger.
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Books by Ijeoma Oluo
Mediocre
Mediocre traces a history of American white male identity over roughly the last 150 years and argues that white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences for people of color, women, nonbinary people, and white men themselves. The book imagines possibilities for a new white male identity that is free from racism and sexism.