Tea with Queen and J.

Latest Episodes:

#109 A Spot of Tea - A "Teachable" Moment Jun 13, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We relive the Black joy that is Marvel’s Black Panther trailer, racism & apartment sharing, and Katy Perry’s woke white feminist tour This week’s hot list: #BlackPantherSoLit, Why won’t Katy P leave us alone? The new home sharing app Muzbnb, are you the only Black person in your town? Do you have to have brunch with Tr*mp supporters? That sucks. And when do you make create a teachable moment vs when to say f&ck that 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 Our JUNETEENTH KICK BACK is this Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleeker. Click the link for more info & to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juneteeth-kick-back-tickets-34781446242 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Black Panther Teaser Trailer Bish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWvtMOGAhw Check out Muzbnb: https://www.muzbnb.com/ This week’s closing clip is Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” 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

#108 I Can't Mosh In Yt Spaces Jun 06, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Why Bill Maher was never invited to the cookout, that Scandal monologue & Black women out of context, and nice yt folks, are you raising little yt supremicists or nah? This week’s hot list: J. recaps #GovBall2017, Bill Maher been wack, mosh pits, the swagger jacking of Dapper Dan, Mama Pope what is you doin? (trolling us?), your racist PWI college friends and their parents, the “c” word, hate crimes at the museum and for the last time its gif not gif! 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 Our JUNETEENTH KICK BACK is Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleeker. Click the link for more info & to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juneteeth-kick-back-tickets-34781446242 NOTES & EXTRA TEA The closing clip is us this week... Somehow an outtake of a simple sneeze turned into an unpacking of misogyny. 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

#107 A Spot of Tea - Congratulations, You Played Yourself May 30, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Comedian Monique does stand-up in her church clothes but she’s got us thinking about how white supremacy defines success. And gentrification continues to suck but the man has been gutting the hood of resources since forever. This week’s hot list: What does it mean when Black folks black-ball other Black folks? How top 20 universities BEEN gentrifying our neighborhoods on some #GetOut sh!t, Rihanna & Lupita, #DanceAfrica, somehow instruments have gender (what? no.) and is success yt? 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 Our JUNETEENTH KICK BACK is Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleeker. Click the link for more info & to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juneteeth-kick-back-tickets-34781446242 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Support #DanceAfrica at BAM here: http://commerce.bam.org/support/supportbam.aspx This week’s closing clip features a scene from Luke Cage season 1, episode 2 Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) and Charlotte Michelle 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

#106 Prince Is The Romper God May 23, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We explore the gendering of fashion and why the romper fiasco was a great time to delete facebook friends. Safe space and when Black folks bring yt supremacy to the party; why college kinda sucked and mad other sh!t. This week’s hot list: Juneteenth approaches! #AmpedBrunch was poppin, safe spaces for Black women, PWI vs. HBCU, Mama’s Bail Out, that weekend romper that exposed mad bigots on the internet, a moment in Black hair, how to love all Black folks even the ones that love yt supremacy, “African” prints in fashion 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 EVENTS Save the date! NYC! Join us Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleeker for our second annual Juneteenth Celebration! More info to come! NOTES & EXTRA TEA To learn more about Mama’s Bail Out Day or to donate, visit: https://nomoremoneybail.org/ Flint water pipe replacement: http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/05/21/black-owned-construction-company-awarded-contract-replace-flint-water-pipes/ This week’s closing clip features that time on Girlfriends when Lynn’s sister got a little too comfortable: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUatBw1lHox/?hl=en 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

#105 A Spot of Tea - Woke Tag May 16, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Happy Mother’s Day! We don’t have kids. We no-spoilers review Master of None and how it went from an ode to white women to an actually funny show. Also parodies of Black power and the tokenism of Black women. This week’s hot list: We’re not your moms, we Netflix binge Master of None and Dear White People, are Black women the new Black? None of us will watch the BET awards but we talk about their participation awards anyway cuz they family. Does anyone care about women in hip hop? Islam in the media, race as satire, PWIs vs HBCUs (again, probably forever), pro-Black vs self-righteous, and woke is finally a four letter word. 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 SAVE THE DATE! NYC! Join us Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar for our second annual Juneteenth Celebration! FREE.99! More info to come! On Sunday, May 21st join us for Queen’s Ms.Vixen IRL meet-up “The Free Black Women's Library-May Edition/Ritual & Practice”. Click the link for more info and to register for FREE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-free-black-womens-library-may-editionritual-practice-tickets-34303461577?aff=es2 J. joins our friends over at The Extraordinary Negroes podcast for their “Blerd is the Word” episode! Check it out at http://www.theextraordinarynegroes.com/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA We referenced the Tea with Queen and J. throwback episde #61 “Level One Woke” check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/61-level-one-woke This week’s closing clip features @Mouse_Jones on @TheGrapevineTV speaking against resistance to Black women and Black LGBTQ in the Black liberation movement: https://twitter.com/kimberlynfoster/status/863562269623328769 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

#104 A Spot of Tea - But Are You Trash? May 09, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’ll show you how to effectively pop off at work, how to ruin your friends Republican wedding, how white folks use Black kids to get grown, and men are trash. I said it. Chu gone do? This week’s hot list: Hana Montana hates Black women, wtf is “the hip hop scene”? We take the ill journey through the appropriation timeline of Black music. Democrats propose a susu, did you order a trash T-shirt? Are you old or just a jerk? Brown Girls web series, the let down of The Get Down, when your boss is wilding, dealing with foolishness #onhere, Black cyber safety, and who’s the real trash MVP? 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 Save the date! NYC! Join us Saturday, June 17th 4:00pm at Von Bar for our second annual Juneteenth Celebration! More info to come! On Sunday, May 21st join us for Queen’s Ms.Vixen IRL meet-up “The Free Black Women's Library-May Edition/Ritual & Practice”. Click the link for more info and to register for FREE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-free-black-womens-library-may-editionritual-practice-tickets-34303461577?aff=es2 NOTES & EXTRA TEA We referenced a few throw back episodes of Tea with Queen and J. this week! Check them out if you’re feeling froggy: 1. #75 "Diasporic Black Girls (with Zahira Kelly aka @bad_dominicana) https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/75-diasporic-black-girls 2. #40 “Miley What’s Good” https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/19-the-fuck-you-susan-episode 2. #19 “The F*ck You Susan Episode” https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/19-the-fuck-you-susan-episode 3. #66 “The Unblackening” (The Get Down Season 1 review) https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/66-the-unblackening 4. #67 “Porn & Power” (A little more Get Down, bc we really loved it) https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/67-a-spot-of-tea-porn-power Take Revenge On House Republicans Who Voted to Destroy Healthcare (maybe): http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/4/1658882/-Want-to-take-immediate-revenge-on-House-Republicans-who-voted-to-destroy-health-care-Here-s-how This week’s closing clip is Charles Barkley traumatizing Black folks while playing himself https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/861466158926409728 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

#103 BYOB: Bring Your Own Bigotry May 02, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is racism keeping us awake at night? Will corporations keep using social justice to sell us piss water? And Henrietta Lacks & Black mistrust of a racist healthcare system. This week’s hot list: Oprah gives us the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on HBO and we discuss white supremacist healthcare (aka America healthcare), Heineken is washed (and it tastes like laundry water), can you grind & sleep at the same damn time? J. has a real life #getout moment, slapstick vs. coonery, kids & non-sexual consent, prayer or nah, Black on Black harassment at work, present day school segregation and your racist grandma. 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 “The Heineken Ad Is Worse Than The Pepsi Ad, You’re Just Too Stupid To Know It” by The DiDi Delgado: https://medium.com/@thedididelgado/the-heineken-ad-is-worse-than-the-pepsi-ad-youre-just-too-stupid-to-know-it-5580e7c40cb1 Read the full article on the racial sleep gap: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reiss-race-sleep-gap-20170423-story.html School segregation in present day Alabama: http://www.theroot.com/judge-allows-white-alabama-town-to-return-to-segregatio-1794753097 This week’s closing clip: “Me Gritaron Negra” by Victoria Santa Cruz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWj2DczQATI Libations to Dyalekt (@DyalektRaps) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio studio! Be sure to check out his podcast Brunch & Budget and visit 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

#102 A Spot of Tea - Can The Dog Do This? Apr 25, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… DMX is everybody’s loveable drunk uncle, a Black hair company takes an open air shit on Black women, and stop asking for hugs. This week’s hot list: #BSAMFuturismo in the Bronx (like a Black-ass Bronx Comic Con bih!), J. works through imposter syndrome, Shea Moisture is wilding! We went to that DMX/Ruff Ryder’s concert and ummmm…., Queen bully’s several rappers, Ijeoma Oluo, child consent & non-sexual touch, when Black businesses model themselves after the oppressor, and that fake-ass stealing-ass old-headass deadass lying-ass muralist in Chicago will never prosper 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 You can support Alex through his battle with leukemia by donating here: https://www.gofundme.com/help-alex-with-his-medical-bills For more information on the year round, nation-wide Black Speculative Arts Movement #BSAM and upcoming events check out: https://blackspeculativeartsmovement.wordpress.com/ Check out Ijeoma Oluo’s brilliant article “The Heart of Whiteness, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black: http://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black Visit Queen’s online magazine Ms.Vixen to read this month’s Poor Tax article by our friends Brunch & Budget: http://www.msvixenmag.com/2017/04/poor-tax-how-car-ownership.html Follow artist Gelila Lila Mesfin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thick_east_african_girl/ Libations to @Conscious and OG Intern 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

#101 I'm A Bad Bitch, Let's Move On Apr 18, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Light-skinned Black folks are not white; Surprise! Slavery ended for Black women too and we must be paid. And for the last time (but probably not), white folks do not get cookies for not being racist. This week’s hot list: We get a letter from a white Muslim and Queen has an "ah ha" moment, J. cries again (she’s tired of it too), self-care in the age of cheese cracker 45, blogger Luvvie plays herself, #PayBlackWomen because you owe Black women, and the struggle Olympics… don’t let them distract you from fighting white supremacy 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA For more information on Las Odiosas art and activism follow them on instagram & twitter @odiosasbx Check out Leslie Mac & Marissa Jenae Johnson’s company www.safetypinbox.com and watch their panel conversation on Compensation as Reparations here: https://www.facebook.com/lesliemacFRN/posts/10154738795264565 This week’s closing clip features our honorary auntie Maxine Waters by “Now This”: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1515826375115514/?hc_ref=SEARCH 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 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

#100 LIVE from Brooklyn Apr 11, 2017

Show notes

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We record our 100th episode LIVE and ask do your favorite Black people hate Black people? Is Pepsi the official beverage of the klan? And should white folks profit from Black Lives Matter? The answer to that is obviously NO. This week’s hot list: What is a gutter snipe and when will Iyanla Vanzant retire? Message over money, Kendall Jenner is not a victim my G, we’re on Michelle Obama hair watch, your favorite Black NYC radio personalities hate Black people, and we talk about that white lady ya’ll love talking about, but we refuse to say her name because enough already 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 This week’s closing clip Cardi B, Bronx Season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHyYRknFKn0 Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) and @Conscious for engineering this episode at Starr Bar! 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 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

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected