Your Body Just Wants You to Get Through This

For almost two decades, I lived in a body that terrified me. That’s finally beginning to change.

Ijeoma Oluo
ZORA
Published in
6 min readMay 27, 2020

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A photo of an exhausted black women with her hands on her temples.
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When I was 20 years old, I found out that my blood was poisonous. I remember opening up an official-looking letter informing me that the cord blood I had donated after giving birth to my son tested positive for hepatitis C. I…

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Ijeoma Oluo
ZORA
Writer for

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