Ijeoma Oluo

In this special guest episode from the podcast In the Meanwhile, co-hosts Marcus Harrison Green and Nora Kenworthy sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo (So You Want to Talk About Race; Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America; Be a Revolution) for a searching conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. Together, they explore the personal cost of speaking truth, the wounds movements can inflict on their own, and what it means to build the world we long for now—not after revolution, but through the way we live, love, and struggle every day. It's a deeply honest conversation about survival, accountability, joy, and choosing community even when it hurts. Featuring : Ijeoma Oluo Credits : Making Contact Team Episode host and producer: Jessica Partnow Executive Director: Jina Chung Engineer: Jeff Emtman Digital Media Marketing: Lissa Deonarain In the Meanwhile Co-hosts: Marcus Harrison Green, Nora Kenworthy Music: No Tears for a Wolf · Ahamefule J. Oluo · Okanomodé. Logo by Nikki Barron. Producer: Jessica Partnow Learn More: If You Decide To Stay | Behind the Book | Be a Revolution | So You Want to Talk About Race | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | In the Meanwhile Podcast | Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.

The Resistant Communiqués Collective is incredibly honored to present Season II, Episode II, with Award-Winning New York Times Best-Selling Author and movement worker, Ijeoma Oluo, entitled, “Resistant Communiqués: General Strikes, Abolition & Building Community Power to Resist State Repression with Ijeoma Oluo”. The term “General strike” has surged in prominence in 2026 , particularly in the wake of the ICE occupation of Minneapolis and the general strike and walkout on January 23 this year. But it’s also a widely misused term because of the difficulty of organizing and coordinating such a widespread labor action. How do you coordinate among so many different groups? It’s not something that you can immediately leap into, especially when people are often so disconnected even from their neighbors. Our guest this month, Ijeoma Oluo , offers valuable insights into the history of labor actions and strategies for making a General Strike feasible. To make mass labor activism possible, we must effectively organize multiracial coalitions in a society where systemic racism, patriarchy, ableism, queerphobia, and more are the norm. This means learning about solidarity and how to practice it. It also necessitates adopting a truly abolitionist perspective: encouraging communities to move beyond carceral approaches, behaviors, and logics. It ensures communities can move beyond relying on carceral entities, while also offering grace, support, and understanding to people as they learn and grow. SUBSCRIBE ON SUBSTACK NOW Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker, and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, and more. She has been featured on programs like The Daily Show, All Things Considered, and BBC News. She is the author of three bestselling books: So You Want To Talk About Race, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, and Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can Too. Ijeoma was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2020. Resistant Communiqués is a grassroots project, self-funded by the Resistant Communiqués Collective and funded in part by our listeners and co-learners, like you. Your support helps foster an accessible, independent podcast focusing on People’s and Resistance History. You can help support and sustain this grassroots project by becoming a paid subscriber today. Here is our interview with Ijeoma Oluo… Listen, share, and study with us using the multimedia syllabus below. Luta, Resistant Communiqués Collective Want more Resistant Communiqués? Follow us (@ResistantCommPod) across all social media platforms: Instagram | Bluesky | <a target="_blank" href="

This week, Nora and Marcus sit down with author and activist Ijeoma Oluo for a searching conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. Together, they explore the personal cost of speaking truth, the wounds movements can inflict on their own, and what it means to build the world we long for now—not after revolution, but through the way we live, love, and struggle every day. It's a deeply honest conversation about survival, accountability, joy, and choosing community even when it hurts. Mentioned in the episode : If You Decide To Stay | Be a Revolution | Gabriel Teodros | Ahamefule J. Oluo | Washington State Book Awards More from Ijeoma Oluo : Behind the Book | So You Want to Talk About Race | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America : Support the pod : Donate here to support In The Meanwhile Follow us : Instagram | BlueSky | Website Read Nora and Marcus's Books : Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Readying to Rise Music: No Tears for a Wolf · Ahamefule J. Oluo · Okanomodé. Used with permission. Logo by Nikki Barron. Transcripts are machine-generated and imperfect. Nora and Marcus's work on the podcast is separate from their professional roles and does not represent the views of their employers. Links to bookshop.org are affiliate links.

Have you ever heard the phrase "healthy competition?" Competing is often viewed as a positive: we are told that it motivates us, drives innovation, and helps us excel. But what if this approach were mistaken, and competition actually causes more harm than good? In this panel discussion, author Ruchika T. Malhotra will be joined by Ijeoma Oluo, Ekin Yasin, and La'Kita Williams to explore the central ideas of her new book, Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success. Author Ruchika Malhotra offers a different framework for success than what we are used to. Uncompete argues that competition leads to exhaustion, anxiety, burnout, and an isolating lack of community. It encourages a scarcity mindset and keeps us from reaching our true potential. Instead, Malhotra argues, we should be investigating this cultural norm and even rewriting it into ways that are likely unfamiliar, such as by tapping into benign envy or finding joy in other people's victories. Drawing on interviews as well as Malhotra's own experiences working with corporations as an inclusion strategist, Uncompete promotes a culture of collaboration and mutuality. The book offers that this approach leads not only to a happier workplace, but one more likely to succeed. Likewise, it can also lead to happier and healthier lives even outside of work. Malhotra subverts the dominant, dog-eat-dog paradigm and makes a radical argument: there is room for everyone at the table and everyone can succeed. Ruchika T. Malhotra is the founder of Candour, a global inclusion strategy firm that has worked with some of the world's biggest organizations. She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and was a founding editor of The Establishment , a women-funded-and-led media website, has written for The New York Times , Forbes.com , TIME , Bloomberg , Wall Street Journal , Quartz , The Seattle Times , and more. She was an adjunct faculty in Communications at University of Washington and Seattle University and is the author of INCLUSION ON PURPOSE: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work, MIT Press' top selling book of 2022. Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race , Mediocre, and Be a Revolution . Her work on race and gender has been published in the New York Times , the Washington Post, and NBC News; and she has been featured on The Daily Show and NPR's All Things Considered . Named on the TIME 100 Next list and The Root 100, she's been awarded the Harvard Humanist of the Year Award, the American Humanist Association's Feminist Humanist Award, Gender Justice League's Media Justice Award, and the Equal Opportunity Institute's Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award. Dr. Ekin Yasin is a professor, researcher, and program leader with expertise in communication, emerging technologies, and leadership development. As Director of the Communication Leadership graduate program at the University of Washington, her work explores how technology transforms identity, storytelling, influence, and global communication. She collaborates with universities around the world on program development, AI-integrated curriculum design, and responsive education models that meet the needs of a shifting global landscape. La'Kita Williams is the Founder and Principa

Last summer, one of KUOW's Book Club selections was Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo’s 2024 bestseller, Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – and How You Can, Too . In it, Oluo shows how people across the nation are creating positive change for racial equity within our most important systems – like the media, policing, education, and many more. The aim of the book is educational, but also to inspire direct action from its readers. In the revolutionary spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, here's KUOW's Katie Campbell's conversation with Ijeoma Oluo. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. Tap here to make a gift and keep Seattle Now in your feed. Got questions about local news or story ideas to share? We want to hear from you! Email us at seattlenow@kuow.org , leave us a voicemail at (206) 616-6746 or leave us feedback online . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A glorious time in Seattle just days before mayoral candidate Katie Wilson advances to the November election. Francesca welcomes the mother and transit riders activist to talk about how the old Democratic guard needs to go in favor of a working-class agenda. And author Ijeoma Oluo joins to discuss liberal establishment’s undoing thanks to its failure to stand for Palestinian lives. Matt Lieb falls through his chair over Sydney Sweeney, and a game of “Two News and a Lie” has everyone stumped. Featuring: Ijeoma Oluo, https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ijeomaoluo/ Matt Lieb https://www.instagram.com/mattliebjokes https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/bad-hasbara-the-worlds-most-moral-podcast/id1721813926 Katie Wilson, mayoral candidate https://www.wilsonforseattle.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wilsonforseattle/ See Francesca LIVE HOUSTON AUGUST 28 - Francesca and Matt will be at The Punchline. Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3A0062C3F8154B3F PASADENA - September 5th - New World Disorder. Tickets here: https://www.showclix.com/event/new-world-disorder-09-05-25-7-45-pm BROOKLYN - October 13th Francesca and Matt will co-headline The Bell House. Tickets here: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300062E2C3694548 Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com *************************** Become a Patron of The Bitchuation Room: https://www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom Tip the show: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Get your union-made TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com *** Thanks to Paige Oamek, Andy Vasoyan & Brent Godin *** Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast on: iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Find Francesca On: Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Franifio Insta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social Watch The Bitchuation Room LIVE on Tuesdays 1pm PT/4pmET on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/franifio or Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/franifio. Listen to the show on: iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuation Google Music: http://bit.ly/GoogleBitchuation Spotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Follow the show on: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bitchuationroom.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/bitchuationroom/ Twitter: https://x.com/BitchuationPod Follow Francesca on: IG:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/franifio/⁠ Twitter: https://twit

This week features a conversation from the 2024 Portland Book Festival, featuring best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo, who is a self-described “writer, speaker, and internet yeller.” She discusses her latest book, Be a Revolution : How Everyday People are Fighting and Changing the World — and How You Can, Too with Portland’s Hanif Fazal, author of An Other World and co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion. They engage in a very honest conversation about the impact that “being loud” about race and racism has had on Oluo’s personal life and mental well-being. She shares that thought she wouldn’t write another book because of that strain, but that through centering loving action that she found a new way of doing her writing work with this project. They also discuss the general writing life and process, and the importance, in the often difficult and consuming work of fighting for systemic change, of centering joy as an outcome of activism. Oluo’s book, Be a Revolution , highlights the way people all over the country are working to create real positive change for intersectional racial equity; as Fazal points out, giving new perspectives on big ideas through the stories of real, actual people. Their stories and Oluo’s work are intended to inspire action and change, and this conversation Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh) is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, NBC News and more. She has been featured on The Daily Show, All Things Considered, BBC News, and more. Her #1 NYT bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race , was released January 2018 with Seal Press. Her second book, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America , was published December 2020 with Seal Press and her upcoming book, Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – and How You Can Too , was January 2024 with Harper One. Oluo was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, and the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute. Hanif Fazal , author of An Other World , has developed and delivered innovative equity and inclusion programs across education, philanthropic, public, and non-profit sectors for over twenty years. He is currently the co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion and is also an author, who writes about the fight for freedom, joy, and belonging in Black and Brown communities. His first book, An Other World, offers a hopeful path forward by nurturing identity and centering community. It’s a path where joy is the norm rather than struggle, where home and work are inclusive rather than exclusionary, and where Brown and Black relationships lead to a unique experience of freedom. Along with local and national news and podcast appearances, Hanif has spoken at South by Southwest, National Equity Summit, a two-time presenter at the CCAR summit on race, and many other equity and education-focused events. He is a National Pew Civic Change award winner, Multnomah County Hilltop award winner, and was awarded the Taste of Portland’s Changemaker award for his prolonged impact o

This week features a conversation from the 2024 Portland Book Festival, featuring best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo, who is a self-described “writer, speaker, and internet yeller.” She discusses her latest book, Be a Revolution : How Everyday People are Fighting and Changing the World — and How You Can, Too with Portland’s Hanif Fazal, author of An Other World and co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion. They engage in a very honest conversation about the impact that “being loud” about race and racism has had on Oluo’s personal life and mental well-being. She shares that thought she wouldn’t write another book because of that strain, but that through centering loving action that she found a new way of doing her writing work with this project. They also discuss the general writing life and process, and the importance, in the often difficult and consuming work of fighting for systemic change, of centering joy as an outcome of activism. Oluo’s book, Be a Revolution , highlights the way people all over the country are working to create real positive change for intersectional racial equity; as Fazal points out, giving new perspectives on big ideas through the stories of real, actual people. Their stories and Oluo’s work are intended to inspire action and change, and this conversation Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh) is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, NBC News and more. She has been featured on The Daily Show, All Things Considered, BBC News, and more. Her #1 NYT bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race , was released January 2018 with Seal Press. Her second book, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America , was published December 2020 with Seal Press and her upcoming book, Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – and How You Can Too , was January 2024 with Harper One. Oluo was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, and the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute. Hanif Fazal , author of An Other World , has developed and delivered innovative equity and inclusion programs across education, philanthropic, public, and non-profit sectors for over twenty years. He is currently the co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion and is also an author, who writes about the fight for freedom, joy, and belonging in Black and Brown communities. His first book, An Other World, offers a hopeful path forward by nurturing identity and centering community. It’s a path where joy is the norm rather than struggle, where home and work are inclusive rather than exclusionary, and where Brown and Black relationships lead to a unique experience of freedom. Along with local and national news and podcast appearances, Hanif has spoken at South by Southwest, National Equity Summit, a two-time presenter at the CCAR summit on race, and many other equity and education-focused events. He is a National Pew Civic Change award winner, Multnomah County Hilltop award winner, and was awarded the Taste of Portland’s Changemaker award for his prolonged i

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/79710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be a Revolution Author: Ijeoma Oluo Narrator: Ijeoma Oluo Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 1 min Release date: 03-18-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings Genres: Politics & Government Publisher's Summary: With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity.

Ijeoma Oluo's #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race ( book tour event at Town Hall in 2019 ), offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society . In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America , she discussed how white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them? In her new book, Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World — and How You Can, Too , Ijeoma Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures . Looking at many of our most powerful systems — like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more — she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates how readers can find their own entry points for change in these same areas or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live. Oluo aims to not only educate but to inspire action and change. Join us at Town Hall for a discussion on how to take conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and, most recently, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America . Her work has been featured in the Guardian , the New York Times , and the Washington Post , among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Michele E. Storms is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU of Washington), former Deputy Director of the ACLU of Washington, and previous Assistant Dean for Public Service and executive director of the William H. Gates Public Service Law program at the University of Washington School of Law. Preceding those roles she served as a statewide advocacy coordinator first at Columbia Legal Services and later at the Northwest Justice Project where over a combined five-year period she coordinated civil legal aid advocacy in the areas of family law, youth and education, housing, elder law, Native American and right to counsel issues. She was also previously on facu

Alternate episode titles: -Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes -Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020 -Ijeoma is about to go chill and write mysteries cus a lot of yall dont want to be a revolution nor talk about race Join us for a very special episode with Ijeoma Oluo talking about her new book, "Be a Revolution", out now, the racism in the publishing world as a Black writer and a path forward. https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/ Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America and, coming in January 2024, BE A REVOLUTION: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too. Her work on race has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 TIME 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100.https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/ Intro Music: @patience.sings on IG Consider becoming a patron to support this podcast: www.patreon.com/ihartericka

Jason and Brett talk to Ijeoma Oluo ( Be a Revolution ) about actionable steps for making social change, the importance of diversifying where you get your information, doing your own research, outlining a blueprint for being the catalyst of change. Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and, most recently, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Her work has been featured in the Guardian , the New York Times, and the Washington Post , among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 Time 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Support the show BOOK CLUB! Sign up for the Gays Reading Book Club HERE December Book: Like Family by Erin O. White SUBSTACK! https://gaysreading.substack.com/ MERCH! http://gaysreading.printful.me WATCH! https://youtube.com/@gaysreading FOLLOW! Instagram: @gaysreading | @jasonblitman Bluesky: @gaysreading | @jasonblitman CONTACT! hello@gaysreading.com Sign up for the Gays Reading Book Club HERE SUBSTACK! MERCH! WATCH! CONTACT! hello@gaysreading.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.