Join us December 16th, 2020, 7.00 pm as NYT best-selling author Ijeoma Oluo and Black Lives Matter activist Janaya Future Khan discuss their work and celebrate the launch of Oluo’s new book, Mediocre!

The tickets include general admission and the featured book (s) shipped to you. (The first 200 tickets will also include a signed bookplate.)

Access to the event will be offered to ticket holders closer to the event date. See price breakdown attached.

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*Please note that shipping is only available to Canadian addresses.

About the book:

MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male identity.

What happens to a culture that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?

Through the last 150 years of American history — from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics — Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves.

Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.

“A gifted storyteller and thorough researcher... with solid scholarship and useful pop culture references... [Oluo has written] a bold, incisive book on heavy topics with a call to action for a more equitable future that doesn’t center White men.” —Kirkus, starred review

“Ijeoma Oluo’s sharp yet accessible writing about the American racial landscape made her 2018 book, 'So You Want to Talk About Race,' an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand and dismantle racist structures. Her new book, Mediocre, builds on this exemplary work, homing in on the role of white patriarchy in creating and upholding a system built to disenfranchise anyone who isn’t a white male.”—TIME, Most Anticipated Books of Fall

About the panelists:

Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and the forthcoming Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many others. She has twice been named to the Root 100, and 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.

Janaya “Future” Khan is a black, queer, gender non-conforming activist, Afrofuturist, storyteller, boxer and social-justice educator. They are the International Ambassador for Black Lives Matter, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto and the former Campaign Director at Color of Change. Khan has become a leading voice in the global crusade demanding social transformation, justice and equality, with a mission to produce work that is a clarifying force. Khan’s work encourages thought leadership, narrative intervention and bridge building. Through this passion, they hope to encourage people to use their words as tools and a lens through which they can orient themselves. Khan’s “Sunday Sermon” on Instagram Live is a weekly discourse in which they discuss various topics, from Black Lives Matter to finding one’s voice and more.

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