Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want To Talk About Race

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. Her NYT bestselling book So You Want to Talk about Race has had a huge resurgence as of late, and it's no wonder given the times we are in.

Ijeoma has been named The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met for her work on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay.

In this episode:

How to get from idea to getting your work out there
How to get through hard creative work
Diversifying where we get our information from

... plus so much more.

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0:00.0	Ijuma Iluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and an internet yeller.
0:12.2	That's right.
0:12.8	I have the good fortune of sharing this fine city with a bunch of amazing creators,
0:18.2	of which Ijoma is a standout. She's the author of the New York
0:23.4	Times bestselling books, so you want to talk about race, which was published two years ago
0:29.0	January, but has had a huge resurgence in times that we are in right now. This material is
0:37.2	super important.
0:39.3	Named as one of Roots 100 most influential African-Americans in 2017, obviously one of the most
0:45.3	influential people in Seattle. Seattle magazine has said this, as has Seattle met, who also
0:52.0	named her one of the 50 most influential women. She's also the winner
0:56.2	of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society. Her work focuses on
1:02.4	issues of race and identity and feminism, social and mental health, social justice, and the
1:08.8	arts. It brings me a ton of joy to have you Joma on the show for a number of
1:13.3	reasons, not the least of which is her ability to recount her journey from writing small essays
1:22.4	at first for herself, then for local publications, and then to her book deal, her ability to
1:27.2	walk us through the
1:28.5	steps of what she did and the process of going from someone who wrote as a young person,
1:34.7	but didn't have a very clear roadmap from where she wanted to go, or from where she was
1:39.9	rather to where she wanted to go, she walks us through this step by step, which if I take a risk
1:45.8	and attempt for a second to speak for so many of you who are listening right now, you'll have
1:50.3	written in and saying this is one of the most important areas that you would like to know more.
1:54.9	So that is one of the reasons that we wanted to have Joma on the show, amongst all the others,
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