# Event Details - **Event Name**: Author’s Event: Dr. Sheneese Thompson in conversation with Gabrielle Farmer - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 19 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Dr. Sheneese Thompson will discuss her book Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertexuality with Gabrielle Farmer on Wednesday, November 19th at 7:00 PMAbout this EventIn this book, Sheneese Thompson analyzes works of film and literature to explore how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and womanhood. Focusing on Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade, Thompson examines iconography of the Yoruba goddess Oshun, represented by rivers, the color yellow, and other symbols. Thompson argues that Beyoncé’s tribute to Oshun creates a narrative of self-repossession amid external definitions, generational trauma, and emotional violence and draws connections to other works that feature similar religious references.Oshun, “Lemonade,” and Intertextuality also explores Beyoncé’s album Black Is King, the television series She’s Gotta Have It, Julie Dash’s movie Daughters of the Dust, Ntozake Shange’s novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and Jamaica Kincaid’s stories in At the Bottom of the River. These works highlight the significance of African traditional religions for the healing and transformation of their characters. Thompson discusses the ways in which Yoruba and Lucumí imagery and practices such as oríkì, or praise poetry, have long been incorporated into Black cultural texts such as these to tell stories of racial and gender-based injustices. In looking at Lemonade together with influential older texts created by Black women, Thompson establishes the use of Afro-Atlantic religion—to think through Black womanhood, to explore self-defined sexuality—as a central tenet of Black women’s literature, one that these artists and writers have brought to the global stage. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/philadelphia/author’s-event-dr-sheneese-thompson-in-conversation-with-gabrielle-farmer/100001962866516590 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fauthors-event-dr-sheneese-thompson-in-conversation-with-gabrielle-farmer-tickets-1962866516590 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Philadelphia - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: 8511 Germantown Ave - **lat**: 40.0764585 - **long**: -75.2065807 - **full address**: 8511 Germantown Ave, 8511 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: booked. 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