The White Men Who Threaten Me With Their Own Suicide

My writing about race and gender has made me a target for desperate white men who don’t want to change

Ijeoma Oluo
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Published in
7 min readDec 1, 2020

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Illustration: Alicia Tatone

The emails started coming in 2018, the same year my book So You Want to Talk About Race came out. They would usually arrive after I had posted an article on race or gender, but sometimes they would appear…

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Ijeoma Oluo
GEN
Writer for

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