Tea with Queen and J.

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#119 Pay Black Women Sep 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… With silence one of the main tools of white supremacy, L’Oreal fires a Black woman for speaking. We debate boycotting the NFL as Colin Kaepernick remains unemployed. And #DisabilityTooWhite. It’s sooo white that Black women are silencing disabled Black women. God help us all. This week’s hot list: Periods and apps, give Black women your money, Peaches Monroee and branding “on fleek”, #SupportBlackWomenHOU, the homie @ThatJayJustice, two Black women are out of a job because L’Oreal is washed, Rihanna's #FentyBeauty is poppin but could be more inclusive, disabled Black lives matter too, child support, is boycotting a viable form of activism? And Black women get sh*t on for demanding to be paid. Can a young woman get money anymore?... This week’s episode is a free format “Spot of Tea” episode. Same quality, less formatting, less fvcks. 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 To donate to directly to a Black women affected by hurricane Harvey check out #SupportBlackWomenHOU. Here’s DiDi Delgado’s facebook post with the google doc, donation links & tracking link: https://www.facebook.com/divadivainc/posts/1828250880537687 Check out Peaches Monroee, creator of the term “on fleek” just launched her own extensions line: https://www.peachesonfleek.com/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out the Flo app and track your bloodclot period: https://appadvice.com/app/flo-period-tracker-period-ovulation-tracker/1038369065 This week’s closing clip features model Munroe Bergdorf on Good Morning Britain being talked over by awm piers morgan: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/piers-morgan-good-morning-britain-munroe-bergdorf-model-loreal-john-lewis-childrens-clothes-video-a7928511.html Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio studios! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com for more dope programming. 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

#118 LIVE at Afropunk Kinda (with Berry of Podcasts In Color) Aug 29, 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 dismantle white supremacist patriarchal capitalism in front of a live audience! But first we talk with Berry from Podcasts In Color, and recap the Black magic of Afropunk Brooklyn. This week’s hot list: The lituation that is Afropunk festival and the people who tried to ruin it. Berry of PodcastsInColor.com schools us on people of color & podcasting, social media and mad other ish. Also our full ass, ill ass live show at Bondfire Radio Audio Fest, covering all things white liberal cake loving supremacy, confederate statues in the Bronx of all places. Google is problematic, Academia vs real world Black feminism, Cardi B is a happy Black women and they mad. 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 Visit www.PodcastsInColor.com for the dopest podcast directory, blog posts, and more! Also be sure to follow her on Twitter & Instagram @podcastsincolor This week’s closing clip features Maxine Water’s acceptance speech at Black Girl’s Rock: http://www.bet.com/video/blackgirlsrock/2017/acceptance-speeches/social-humanitarian-award-rep-maxine-waters.html Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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

#117 We're Tired, Not Washed Aug 22, 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… You’re young, you’re Black, you’re successful – but are you a gentrifier too? Is that possible? What’s happening in Sierra Leone, and why don’t we know? And the father of modern gynecology mutilated and tortured Black women, so of course someone built him a statue! WTF? This week’s hot list: J. is confused & Queen is annoyed by the solar eclipse, Elmo meme’s and ableism, Instagram as self-care, Afropunk approaches, how enslaved Black women were mutilated for medical research, a racist monument in Spanish Harlem (how Sway?), we know what gentrification is, but what is it reeeally? This week’s episode is a free format “Spot of Tea” episode. Same quality, less formatting. 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 Read Shamira Ibrahim’s article “Can Black People Be Gentrifiers?” : http://verysmartbrothas.com/can-black-people-be-gentrifiers/ Please check out the donation links that Queen mentioned in support of victims of the Sierra Leone mudslides and do you own research: http://care.org/country/sierra-leone https://www.hopeforsierraleone.org https://www.unicef.org/ Check out our friend Sean's list of Black Owned beauty brands! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jqI4woMNiGH2PLOy8eAjgF_E1MS1qKGO04WAO19MIDI/edit#gid=0 Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio studios! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com for more dope programming. 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

#116 Terrorism Is Mad White Aug 16, 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… The Unite the Right terrorist attack and why you need to stop inviting yt liberals to the cookout. Does safe sex matter on television? Banking while Black, and how “change your energy” is some victim blaming bullsh!t. This week’s hot list: State sanctioned terrorism and white liberals, J. finally gets a therapist, the racists in Cville belong to someone, white feminism and white supremacy, white liberals and white supremacy, white bread and white supremacy, Insecure and condoms, Michael Rapaport’s washed PSA 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 EVENTS On August 20th help support independent at Bondfire Radio’s Audio Festival in Brooklyn, NY! Tickets & info: http://bondfirerooftopseries.splashthat.com/TeaQJ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Black man arrested for cashing a valid Chase check at a Chase bank: https://www.facebook.com/1706208859699408/videos/1895143067472652/?hc_ref=ARS6b7ax396HTaYVHWNwD-0cz819oPcMuYezCjyHHE1eUD6YhKZlDB6EqQWr4W3CzOQ&pnref=story Libations to Macedonia (@bsots) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out his show radio BSOTS on www.Bondfireradio.com! 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

#115 So Issa Fat Joke? Aug 08, 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… Are you a polite fvckboi? Does Issa Rae’s 'Insecure' low-key shit on the hood? And from 'Girl’s Trip' to Usher’s STD scandal, we explore society’s relationship with fat women. This week’s hot list: Is “Reclaiming My Time” for everyone? Did they dress Queen Latifah like an extra in Girl’s Trip? Fat women: they have sex and mind their business, you should too. Black folks using the hood for laughs, cool or nah? And “Men Are Trash”, short hand for the patriarchy. Deal with it bih 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 EVENTS On August 20th help support independent at Bondfire Radio’s Audio Festival in Brooklyn, NY! Tickets & info: http://bondfirerooftopseries.splashthat.com/TeaQJ NOTES & EXTRA TEA This week’s closing clip is features a 1982 interview with Eartha Kitt. Get into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYwf7e_cr8 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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

#114 Reclaiming My Time Aug 02, 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… How to be Black and talk about light skinned privilege, when white folks wanna host the cookout, and the cisgender straight imagining of a transgender boogie man. This week’s hot list: Looking for an apt in NY is abuse, Amber Rose wanders out of her lane, CURLFEST, yt folks and Black holidays: a how-to, J.’s dad is wildin on facebook, Have you had sex with Usher in the past 10 years? Natural hair care products and anti-Black packaging, The Breakfast Club uses trans women for laughs but also THEY’VE BEEN TRASH 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 Learn more about Southern University’s digital archive of slave narratives: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/article_996926ae-579c-11e7-9d36-13d23afca32d.html Learn more about the International African American Museum Center for Family History: http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/07/20/intl-african-american-museums-new-genealogy-research-center-will-help-black-people-trace-their-roots/ This week’s closing clip is features First Nations organizer Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail at a press conference regarding indigenous rights & liberation in Canada. Watch the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG73ww5o4A Read more about what Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail and other organizers are working toward here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG73ww5o4A Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio studios! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com for more dope programming. 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

#113 Boom Shakalaka Jul 11, 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 Jay-Z’s 4:44 a comedy album? Popsugar does “natural hair” for whites only. And why America keeps trying to turn the rapes of women like Sally Hemings into forbidden romance. Wtf? This week’s hot list: Blerd City Con, Blue Ivy puts everything in shaka, Queen goes to Afro-Latino Fest, what is “regular Black”, that wack ancestry.com commercial, the romanticizing of Rape & Slavery: Sally Hemings, Alex Haley’s “Queen”, and “Underground” (we go in), the myth of the “house slave”, our favorite Black femmes, suffering & womanhood, co-opting natural hair, and the Podcast Awards! Nominate us bih! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj NOMINATE US! We need you to nominate us for the 12th annual Podcast Awards! Please go to www.podcastawards.com/ and select Tea with Queen and J. podcast in both the People’s Choice AND Society & Culture categories! Voting ends July 31st! 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 Blerd City Con is happening July 29th & 30th! Tickets and information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blerd-city-con-tickets-35335342962?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing This week’s closing clip is Blue Ivy going ham on Jay-Z’s new album 4:44 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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

#112 Bebe's Kids Deserve to Live Too Jul 04, 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… Did growing up in a white town turn you into a pod person? What to expect from yt folks when they’re not being wack, and respecting varied approaches to injustice. This week’s hot list: In what world can yt folks celebrate Juneteenth?, #BlerDCon & Black joy, Are bras the real enemy, Racism: North vs South, leveraging yt privilege in interracial dating, #BlackLivesMatter & respectability, 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 J. on episode #69 of The Brown Liquor Report podcast “Blerds in the Trap”: https://soundcloud.com/brownliquorreport/ep-69-blerds-in-the-trap-feat-j-from-tea-with-queen-and-j This week’s closing clip is from “Martin”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5jV2tzzPJg Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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

#111 A Spot of Tea - Queerly Femmetastic (with Isake Khadiya Smith) Jun 27, 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 the LGBTQ+ community another whites only club? Can you be queer as f!ck and Black as f!ck? Also Black women, wigs and appropriation. This week’s hot list: What’s up with the new Pride flag? QTPOC and protest movements, Migos in “Blouses vs. Shirts”, can Black women appropriate Black hair? Negroes still saying “good hair” and it’s strange. Shaking the unhealthy part of forgiveness, toxic masculinity in women, BlerDCon, cosplay and mad other sh!t. 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 this week’s guest: educator, facilitator, Queer Black womanist activist and creator of #QueerlyFemmetastic Isake Khadiya Smith! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QueerlyFemmetasticCosplay/ Instagram: @is_she_okay https://www.instagram.com/is_she_okay/?hl=en Twitter: @is_she_okay https://twitter.com/is_she_okay Have you seen the promo for the new rainbow flag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EiZmcel9po Learn more about BlerDCon now! http://blerdcon.com/ This week’s closing clip features a scene from “Master Of None” season 2 episode 8 “The Thanksgiving Episode” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mhDpAFnDaM Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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

#110 Whatchu Not Gone Do Is Jun 20, 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… Ashy Twitter attacks a Black cosplayer in a fight to the yt supremacist finish, the art of challenging each other vs. trashing each other, and do we trust the system or not? Bill Cosby trial included… which is it? This week’s hot list: Happy Juneteenth! Tariq Nasheed is calling Black women names again, the dehumanization of Black folks by a Black talking head, cosplaying while Black, it’s still not the woke Olympics, Black femme gaze is the only gaze, Jay Z and the Father’s Day Bail Out, and the trash ass justice system. 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 Jay Z helped bail out incarcerated fathers for fathers day and you can too: https://nomoremoneybail.org/ Check out Krissy Victory discussing her experiences with racism & cosplay: https://twitter.com/KrissyVictory/status/864692779242450945 We were listed as one of the top #Race/Related podcasts in the NYTimes! http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/06/18/race-related 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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