Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an indelible collection of essays on womanhood, home and history. Honorée joins us to talk about the blues, intersectionality, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, respectability politics, poetry and more with host Miwa Messer.  

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    

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Featured Books (Episode): Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Recitatif by Toni Morrison The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton edited by Michael S. Glaser and Kevin Young Black Buffalo Woman by Kazim Ali