Tea with Queen and J.

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#135 New Year New Ooooow Jan 02, 2018

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… It’s a new year and we’re fresh off of setting our intentions during Kwanzaa. But does celebrating Kwanzaa have to be a political act? Can we live? Also, mental health tools, #PayBlackWomen, and Tr*mp’s mission to sh!t on everything we love and how to protect the land in spite of it. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj PAY BLACK WOMEN Learn more about Harriet’s Apothecary: http://www.harrietsapothecary.com/ Bath salts: Instagram.com/delatierrablends Earrings: http://www.coloredgirlshustle.com/shop NOTES & EXTRA TEA Trump Slashes Size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/trump-bears-ears.html Support the coalition of tribes fighting back: http://bearsearscoalition.org/ This week’s closing clip features Erica Garner on Democracy Now. Rest in Power Erica. https://www.instagram.com/p/BdQqMu9HK4P/ Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

We Gotta Have It? #HowToMakeLoveToANegroWithoutGettingTired & #LoveDontPayDaRent Dec 27, 2017

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Welcome to Queen & J.’s “We Gotta Have It?” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of the Spike Lee created & directed Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It” This week we do a spoiler full review episodes 7 and 8! #HowToMakeLoveToANegroWithoutGettingTired and #LoveDontPayDaRent (IF YOU DON’T KNOW ME BY NOW). We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing and the episodes prior, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time for you to catch up! If you’d like to listen to this episode in two parts, we begin reviewing the #LoveDontPayDaRent episode at moment 44:07. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj #ShesGottaHaveIt WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to watch She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix now! Want more Queen & J.? Listen to full episodes of Tea with Queen and J. podcast! New episodes drop every Tuesday, then come back for more “We Gotta Have It” dropping every Wednesday! Check out How To Make Love To A Negroe Without Getting Tired by Dany LaFerrière: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Negro-Without-Getting-Tired/dp/1553655850 ENGINEERING Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/

#134 This Year Didn't Suck Dec 26, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We remember all the sh!t that didn’t suck about 2017! We explore our favorite moments in popular Black joy and look forward to more opportunities to challenge white supremacist patriarchal capitalism in 2018. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out Ijeoma Oluo’s article “The Hear of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, The White Woman Who Identifies As Black” - https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black Be sure to listen to our “We Gotta Have It” review podcast of the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It”! New reviews drop every Wednesday. Check out our review of episodes 1 & 2! https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/we-gotta-have-it-dajumpoff-bootyfull This week’s closing clip is Jenifer Lewis via Jezebel: https://www.facebook.com/Jezebel/videos/10154837429227434/?hc_ref=ARSuMVzEaNGvEIHYgEg3LYY83eFE5RsHq5JievogtJxqopxuEbKMUXeld6wlATSQ3Cc Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

We Gotta Have It? #4MyNegusAndMyBishes & #HeGotItAllMixedUp Dec 20, 2017

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Welcome to Queen & J.’s “We Gotta Have It?” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of the Spike Lee created & directed Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It” This week we do a spoiler full review episodes 5 and 6! #4MyNegusAndMyBishes (ALL WORDS MATTER) and #HeGotItAllMixedUp (DYSLEXIA). We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing and the episodes prior, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time for you to catch up! If you’d like to listen to this episode in two parts, we begin reviewing the #HeGotItAllMixedUp episode at moment 49:18. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj #ShesGottaHaveIt WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to watch She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix now! Want more Queen & J.? Listen to full episodes of Tea with Queen and J. podcast! New episodes drop every Tuesday, then come back for more “We Gotta Have It” dropping every Wednesday! ENGINEERING Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/

#133 Fvck Your Racist Grandma (with Olatiwa Karade) Dec 19, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… An alleged rapist tries to coopt the #metoo movement, dispelling “alternative Blackness”, Black hair in Harlem, and with 2017 being the year of giving Black women your money, we have a special guest on the show for a live #PayBlackWomen segment! This week’s hot list: We recap our podcast brunch #BitchesGottaEat, remind ourselves we're doing fine, ladyhood, that viral new sweatshirt company Splendid Rain Co., growing up under President Obama, how to deal with racist liberals, DNA ancestry testing, more pronoun exploration, Black women voters galvanizing for themselves, yt women and hair tugging because wtf, and more! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out Olatiwa Karade’s SplendidRainCo, Clothing for Activists here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SplendidRainCo And find Olatiwa & her sweatshirs on social media: Twitter & Instagram @splendidrainco Instagram @misskarade Facebook https://www.facebook.com/splendidrainco/ & https://www.facebook.com/latiwa.roses Be sure to listen to our “We Gotta Have It” review podcast of the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It”! New reviews drop every Wednesday. Check out our review of episodes 1 & 2! https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/we-gotta-have-it-dajumpoff-bootyfull Check out Luvvie & company’s list of over 100 Black women running for public office: https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/black-women-in-politics Use this google doc to submit Black women running in your area: https://t.co/YQdfBD6HbV This week’s closing clip by Beyonce: https://www.facebook.com/ILoveBeyonceArgentina/videos/1548154515262656/?hc_ref=ARS7-Jxlfv5vX4TZEjQYrXNoi50HagZuqQrqi9u1nSjZsmZGSZBH1UyNyRPwT06H4vE Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

We Gotta Have It? #LBD & #LuvIzLuv Dec 13, 2017

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Welcome to Queen & J.’s “We Gotta Have It?” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of the Spike Lee created & directed Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It” This week we do a spoiler full review episodes 3 and 4! #LBD (LITTLE BLACK DRESS) and #LUVIZLUZ (SEXUALITY IS FLUID). We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing and the episodes prior, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time for you to catch up! If you’d like to listen to this episode in two parts, we begin reviewing the #LUVIZLUV episode at moment 50:11. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj #ShesGottaHaveIt WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Work of the artist Carrie Mae Weems is featured in Dr. Jamison’s office, learn more about Weems here: http://carriemaeweems.net/ Be sure to watch She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix now! Want more Queen & J.? Listen to full episodes of Tea with Queen and J. podcast! New episodes drop every Tuesday, then come back for more “We Gotta Have It” dropping every Wednesday! ENGINEERING Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/

#132 Prison Ain't Easy Dec 12, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this “spot of tea” episode… Are your parents allowed to disrespect you? Prisons find new ways to destroy whole communities of people. And we’re done playing with pronouns… This week’s hot list: we finally decide what to do about our pronouns, yt supremacist patriarchal capitalism introduces skyping as a substitute for visitation bc wtf, Rykers island is freezing and we want to help since it’s Rykers and no one gives a sh!t, Affordable Care Act deadline is Friday!!! And how to love your parents without sacrificing yourself for them (sounds bad, but it ain’t, we promise) Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to listen to our “We Gotta Have It” review podcast of the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It”! New reviews drop every Wednesday. Check out our review of episodes 1 & 2! https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/we-gotta-have-it-dajumpoff-bootyfull Skype to replace actual prison visitation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/skype-for-jailed-video-calls-prisons-replace-in-person-visit For some reason Rykers Island is allowed to remain open without proper heat this NY winter. Help keep inmates warm with thermals and other items via this amazon wishlist! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/15WLMA6HLLIGB/ This week’s closing clip is Wyclef Jean ft. The Rock, Melky & Sedek - It Doesn't Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1f4SVqnbKg Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

We Gotta Have It? #DaJumpOff & #BootyFull Dec 06, 2017

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Welcome to Queen & J.’s “We Gotta Have It?” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of the Spike Lee created & directed Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It” This week we do a spoiler full review of the first two episodes #DaJumpOff (DOCTRINE) and #BootyFull (SELF ACCEPTANCE) . We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time for you to catch up! If you’d like to listen to this episode in two parts, we begin reviewing the #BootyFull episode at moment 24:05. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj #ShesGottaHaveIt WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh who’s amazing work is featured all up and through the series: http://www.tlynnfaz.com/ Be sure to watch She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix now! ENGINEERING Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/

#131 Don't Spit In My Coconut Oil Dec 05, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is your roommate filthy or is she just trying to kill you? We discuss race & cleanliness, our use of pronouns, why “alternative” Blackness is not a thing, and how NOT to respond to rape allegations. This week’s hot list: Baroque Black girls, is it cool to "play" with pronouns, are yt roommates terrible, J. is tired of being treated like "the help" at work, have you ever had your Black card revoked?, Oh hairnah.com is lit, bail Black folks out of jail with an app, period cups #theseisbloodyshoes and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj PAY BLACK WOMEN Nene Organics is a vegan and organic hair, skin, and beauty product line, curated by Nerissa Irving. Shop her site here: http://nenefemhealth.com/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Our new review podcast series “We’ve Gotta Have It?” starts December 6th! We’ll be reviewing each episode of the new Netflix show “She’s Gotta Have It”. Be sure to listen every Wednesday! Help bail Black folks out of jail with your spare change using the new life saving app, Appolition: https://appolition.us/ Check out Creative Soul Photography’s Afro Art featured here: https://mymodernmet.com/afro-art-creativesoul-photography/ and on their website here: http://creativesoulphoto.com/afroart-series/ Play Momo Pixel’s new hair game! http://hairnah.com/ Listen to The Lemonade Show podcast: https://soundcloud.com/lemonade-show This week’s closing clip feature’s Cardi B. on Libya: https://twitter.com/islamrizza/status/935612301704646656?refsrc=email&s=11 Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

#130 Ain't No Prince Bih (with Money of QueerWOC) Nov 21, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this “spot of tea” episode… We have a guest! We discuss relational mental health, Cardi B again – but this time tattoos and possible sainthood, women that coddle toxic men, & Disney’s high key metaphor for a ride or die b!tch. This week’s hot list: Yes this is the episode where J. refers to Maxine Shaw as Pam but let’s get over that please; QueerWOC podcast, mental health, digital safe space, tattoos, Beyonce’s Black children, #NYCStripperStrike, colorism & mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to check out our guest Money on all social media & listen to her amazing podcast! Money’s Twitter & Instagram: @MelanatedMoney QueerWOC: The Podcast Twitter & Instagram: @QueerWOCpod Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/queerwoc Website/Tumblr: http://queerwoc.com/ Queen & J. are taking a week off! We’ll be back with our next episode on Tuesday, December 5th and then our new “We Gotta Have It?” mini podcast series on Wednesday, December 6th! This week’s closing clip “How to Pronounce Kelela”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hejohRKRhu4 Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

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