{"id":68022,"date":"2025-11-12T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68022"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:27:11","slug":"honoree-fanonne-jeffers","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/honoree-fanonne-jeffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Due to weather conditions in the author&#8217;s area impacting travel, Honor\u00e9e Fannone Jeffers&#8217; event at Town Hall Seattle is canceled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seattle Arts &amp; Lectures is working to reschedule the event and will share details as soon as possible. If you don&#8217;t want to wait for Honor\u00e9e&#8217;s reschedule date and instead would like an exchange or refund, please contact boxoffice@lectures.org or call 206-621-2230 by February 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"55077:0\">Traditional African\/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw coined the phrase \u201cintersectionality\u201d to explain the unique position of Black women in America. In many ways, they are at a third crossroads: attempting to fit into notions of femininity and respectability primarily assigned to White women, while inventing improvisational strategies to combat oppression.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"55077:0\">In\u00a0<em>Misbehaving at the Crossroads<\/em>, Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers explores the emotional and historical tensions in Black women\u2019s public lives and her own private life. She charts voyages of Black girlhood to womanhood and the currents buffeting these journeys, including the difficulties of racially gendered oppression, the challenges of documenting Black women\u2019s ancestry; the adultification of Black girls; the irony of Black female respectability politics; the origins of Womanism\/Black feminism; and resistance to White supremacy and patriarchy. 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If you don&#8217;t want to wait for Honor\u00e9e&#8217;s reschedule date and instead would like an exchange or refund, please contact boxoffice@lectures.org or call 206-621-2230 by February 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"55077:0\">Traditional African\/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw coined the phrase \u201cintersectionality\u201d to explain the unique position of Black women in America. In many ways, they are at a third crossroads: attempting to fit into notions of femininity and respectability primarily assigned to White women, while inventing improvisational strategies to combat oppression.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"55077:0\">In\u00a0<em>Misbehaving at the Crossroads<\/em>, Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers explores the emotional and historical tensions in Black women\u2019s public lives and her own private life. 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