Tea with Queen and J.

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#99 Be Conceited Apr 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… Maybe it’s Mabelline, maybe is a microagression. Also Riker’s is closing and we don’t trust that sh!t, and why we will never, ever be humble. This week’s hot list: What does it mean that Riker’s Island is closing?, the Atlanta bridge collapse and capitalisms property over people rule, women’s sports, J.’s racist work affair, Kendrick Lamar’s Humble, filters filters filters, is BET wilding again? Queen learns how to work with white folks, And why everyone should keep our name out they mouf for the millionth freaking time. 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 Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00pm for our 100th episode LIVE at Starr Bar in Brooklyn! Click the link for tickets and information now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-with-queen-and-j-live-tickets-33035620430 NOTES & EXTRA TEA This week’s closing clip Lil’ Kim “Queen B!tch”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5clkFgVhmj4 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out 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

#98 A Spot of Tea - Too Woke to Laugh? Mar 28, 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 try to calculate how many rape jokes are ok before… yeah, they’re not ok. And the difference between a missing girl and a runaway… um, they’re the same. Also mental health and the fvcked up sh!t people say to little girls. Drink up! This week’s hot list: Cosplay again, morning rituals, Dave Chappelle is back we guess, DC’s missing Black children, the Bronx, how to recognize sex trafficking when you see it, prioritizing mental health out this bih, pimpology 101, and stop saying stupid sh!t to little girls, you’re fvcking them up and making it hard. 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 Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00pm for our 100th episode LIVE at Starr Bar in Brooklyn! Click the link for tickets and information now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-with-queen-and-j-live-tickets-33035620430 Come to Queen’s “The Thrift Splurge” thrift swap on Sunday, April 2nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thrift-splurge-tickets-32640743342 NOTES & EXTRA TEA If you suspect someone is a victim of sex trafficking or to report a sex trafficker call 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP to BEFREE or 233733 Poet Casey Rocheteau on Dave Chappelle’s return: http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/17116/detroit_poet_smacks_dave_chappelle_too_consumed_with_himself_to_care_about_detroit#.WNmeRxHDPlI More on Rocheteau: http://caseyrocheteau.org/ Check out Women In Comics Collective: https://www.womenincomicscollective.org/ This week’s closing clip is Ericka Hart speaking to Allure magazine: https://www.facebook.com/allure/videos/10154951940938607/?autoplay_reason=all_page_organic_allowed&video_container_type=0&video_creator_product_type=2&app_id=2392950137&live_video_guests=0 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 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

#97 Keep Our Names Outcha Mouf Mar 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 episode… We discuss dating and the fvckboi celebrities that tell women how to do it. Also, in our News That’s Not News segment - the criminalization of Black girls in the sex trade. And finally why white feminists need to keep our names out they mouth. This week’s hot list: Tyrese, Steve Harvey, and Rev Run are cancelled, sex trafficking, the case of Cyntoia Brown, juvenile justice, pimps, Queen is still fired up about Insecure (it gets weird), do prisoners deserve health care?, and white feminists stay wilding (somebody put that on a t-shirt please) 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 Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00pm for our 100th episode LIVE at Starr Bar in Brooklyn! Click the link for tickets and information now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-with-queen-and-j-live-tickets-33035620430 Come to Queen’s The Thrift Splurge thrift swap on Sunday, April 2nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thrift-splurge-tickets-32640743342 Women in Comics Con is happening March 25th at the Bronx Library Center. Tickets & info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winc-con-2017-tickets-30803129991 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to Queen’s guest spot on Brooklyn Deep: http://brooklyndeep.org/third-rail-eps-40-toward-a-black-and-muslim-future/ Watch the documentary “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia Brown’s Story” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlI3TswSIs Sign the petition to release Cyntoia Brown http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/free-cyntoia-brown This mom is seeking proper health care for her incarcerated son: https://www.facebook.com/tia.summer.10/posts/478093562581436?pnref=story This week’s closing clip is by Lady Leshurr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyodeHtVvkA Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com 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

#96 A Spot of Tea - You Mad Bro? Mar 14, 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 give a full recap of #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up, then discuss toxic femininity and take a brief break from yelling at white women to collect some of our trans Black cousins. This week’s hot list: #PodinLiveNYC, what’s up with transphobic feminists, where do we fit in feminism/Black feminism/womanism/hood feminism, do we care? J. is annoying, Queen has beef with bell hooks, and how toxic femininity is a cancer. 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 www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00pm for our 100th episode! LIVE at Starr Bar (214 Starr St, Brooklyn, NY) More info to come! Come to Queen’s The Thrift Splurge thrift swap on Sunday, April 2nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thrift-splurg-tickets-32640743342 Women in Comics Con is happening March 25th at the Bronx Library Center. Tickets & info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winc-con-2017-tickets-30803129991 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out the hashtag #PodinLiveNYC on twitter and instagram to see pics and tweets about our epic independent podcast meet-up. Official pics here by Dom Sindayiganza here: http://www.sindayiganza.com/Client-Galleries/Tea-With-Queen-and-J-PodinLiveNY/n-52wGSF/i-QjMcxFf This week’s closing clip, Bread & Milk by Vic Dibitetto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU Libations to @Conscious for DJ’ing #PodinLiveNYC and for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out 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

#95 It's Dark And Hell Is Hot Mar 07, 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… Somehow George Bush is America’s new favorite white man, A gay cartoon kiss sends bad parents into a twitter frenzy, and stop blaming Black folks for eeeeeeverything. It’s tired. This week’s hot list: will the real George Bush please stand up, stop talking about Rachel Dolezal she doesn’t even go here, animation and sexuality and wack lazy parenting, Black hair “would you rathers”, and Flint still does not have clear water. Unacceptable. 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 EVENTS Join us Saturday, March 11th at 4:00 for #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up we’re hanging out with 10 of our favorite Black podcasts in NYC and their listeners at Von for an afternoon kick it session. RSVP now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podinlivenyc-black-podcast-meet-up-tickets-32135312585 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Correction! The Disney XD cartoon featuring the gay kiss is called "Star vs the Forces of Evil" and the episode is actually called "Just Friends", here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwPLyQa4nI Listen to our interview on The Cure Podcast at your own risk: https://soundcloud.com/thecurepodcast/queen-with-tea-and-j-episode Impossible Black girl would you rather's by Tolani Shoneye: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tolanishoneye/the-hardest-game-of-would-you-rather-for-black-girls?utm_term=.ha1VYBVLWD#.doaxYbx92X Check out the highly suspect website www.helpforflint.com for info and other links on organizations working to help Flint. Use is as a resource to connect with other possibly more trustworthy resources. This week’s closing clip of former President George W. Bush on his war in Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A77N5WKWM&app=desktop Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com 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

#94 A Spot of Tea - White Disappointment Feb 28, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We love Jordan Peele’s new movie Get Out, but what was the racial motivation behind Keanu? Also, fvck Jimmy Kimmel, Remy Ma Shether’s Nikki, and is it ever too soon for sex? This week’s hot list: #TrapKaraoke, the new film Get Out, Key & Peele: Black joy or nah?, the Oscars shenanigans, we still don’t fvck with JT, why is Jimmy Kimmel trying to catch these hands?, eyes off Denzel, Moonlight, Casey Affleck’s rapish self, a banner week in the Bronx, Remy Ma & Nikki Minaj, ain't no "lone wolf" B., and how many dates should there be before sex? 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 EVENTS Join us Saturday, March 11th at 4:00 for #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up we’re hanging out with 10 of our favorite Black podcasts in NYC and their listeners at Von for an afternoon kick it session. RSVP now  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podinlivenyc-black-podcast-meet-up-tickets-32135312585 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Visit www.msvixenmag.com/ and sign up for newsletter updates on Queen’s book club! Check out this month’s tea sponsor Plum Deluxe Tea! Organic loose leaf tea blends, made just for you: www.plumdeluxe.com/teashop This week’s closing clip: https://twitter.com/Local4News/status/834807556652548096/video/1 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out 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

#93 The Bronx Is Burning Feb 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 episode… Do you give a sh!t about your single friends? Like do you really give a sh!t? Also, J. gives Queen a lesson in “how to work with white folks”; environmental warfare in the Bronx; and turn off your TV, it’s stressing you out. This week’s hot list: are Black bodies unloveable?, who takes care of single people, Queen is navigating Black hair at work, stop feeding into Tr*mp’s media madness, last week we were all immigrants, now “We are all American’s” because white liberals are mad annoying. 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 EVENTS Join us Saturday, March 11th at 4:00 for #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up we’re hanging out with 10 of our favorite Black podcasts in NYC and their listeners at Von for an afternoon kick it session. RSVP now  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podinlivenyc-black-podcast-meet-up-tickets-32135312585 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to our guest spot on Three Fifs Podcast here: http://threefifspodcast.com/2017/02/18/an-extra-fif-tea-with-queen-and-j/ “Romantic Love is Killing Us: Who Takes Care of Us When We Are Single?” by Caleb Luna https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/romantic-love-is-killing-us/ “Environmental Racism and Health Disparities in the South Bronx” by Leah Kozak https://sojo.net/articles/environmental-racism-and-health-disparities-south-bronx Visit http://www.msvixenmag.com/ and sign up for newsletter updates on Queen’s book club! Check out this month’s tea sponsor Plum Deluxe Tea! Organic loose leaf tea blends, made just for you: http://www.plumdeluxe.com/teashop This week’s closing clip “Big Momma Thang” by Lil Kim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRfpk311NU Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com 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

#92 A Spot of Tea - Adele's Black Friends Feb 14, 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… Michael Jackson was a genius with a pet monkey, but is Beyoncé doing too much? Also Black fat, Black health and white supremacy. This week’s hot list: The biggest star in the world is a Black woman – can she live tho?, Beyonce vs. Solange: Why Tho?, Quinta B.’s new webseries “Up For Adoption”, the Countable app, did Adele “I have Black friends” us or nah?, Black body image/health/femininity and white supremacy – a love story. 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Watch Quinta Brunson’s new webseries “Up For Adoption” here: https://www.go90.com/profiles/va_130a15303de7402897f8af4cc564fb46 Contact your reps, influence congress and vote on bills with the Countable app: https://www.countable.us/ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Body Shaming Black Female Athletes Is Not Just About Race: http://time.com/3964758/body-shaming-black-female-athletes/ BMI: Is the Scale Broken for Black Women?: http://blackdoctor.org/451648/bmi-and-african-american-women__trashed/2/ Check out this month’s tea sponsor Plum Deluxe Tea! Organic loose leaf tea blends, made just for you: http://www.plumdeluxe.com/teashop This week’s closing clip features Little Richard at the 1988 Grammy’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-qRSsmg10 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out 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

#91 Single Black Aunties Feb 07, 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 every single Black woman a hot fvcking mess? Or is that just TV magic? Also, America’s obsession with abortion and why Black pregnancy announcements are none of your freaking business. This week’s hot list: stop playing and give Black women your money, we give love to Berry of PodcastsInColor.com, Black animation, the dopeness of #Breakdanceswithwolves podcast, intimacy, everyone says single Black women are messy – we promise you we’re ok, the abortion debate and white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, Black women and fertility, and jacking the homeless. 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA It's Black History Month and our friend Hab is celebrating Black animated characters with his page Black Toon History on tumblr: http://blackertoons.tumblr.com/ and facebook https://www.facebook.com/blackertoons/! Check it out! Surviving a loss: A Personal Story About Experiencing Miscarriage: http://www.msvixenmag.com/2017/01/surviving-loss-personal-story-about.html?m=1 White Women: This Is Why Your Critiques Of Beyoncé Are Racist: https://theestablishment.co/white-women-this-is-why-your-critiques-of-beyonc%C3%A9-are-racist-a431e7e1f672#.89uthi5lc Check out this month’s tea sponsor Plum Deluxe Tea! Organic loose leaf tea blends, made just for you: http://www.plumdeluxe.com/teashop This week’s closing clip “How Bow Dat”: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1109009695876253&id=791954280915131 Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com 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

#90 A Spot of Tea - We're Not All Immigrants B Jan 31, 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… Queen is off mic for the first 8 minutes because we’re ridiculous. We discuss why New Edition is the glue holding many of us together; Queen shares her experiences as a Black Muslim erased in America; and J. asks is it you or is it gas lighting? This week’s hot list: New Edition for life (we discuss the biopic from about minute 11 to 32), don’t gaslight me bro, google gaslighting if you need to, #NoMuslimBan, is this really about immigration?, the bootstrappers are back, get out of our DM’s please (you don’t even go here), erasure vs. erasers do you know the difference or nah? America was not founded on whatever you keep trying to tell us it was founded on, Jessica Williams gets attacked by white feminism, and remember Black Muslims? 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out TheReadingRoomShop.com for The Reading Room tea we tried on this episode. You can also find them on twitter and instagram @ReadingRoomShop Please check out this evolving google doc “US Politicians on Muslim Ban” created by Jenn B. Caballero to see where your officials stand and a how to demand justice: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hSGjyWJZIQJpGz4V2ftX_qioCgBtL59oJkkhx146nFE/htmlview?sle=true This week’s closing clip “Can You Stand The Rain” by New Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flrKMGfwjw 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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