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#89 A Spot of Tea - White Cisterhood Jan 24, 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… America stared in the face of evil on inauguration day. But then we pulled together and the Women’s March to wear pink pussy hats, hug police, and remind the world that First Nations, brown, trans, sex-workers and Black lives don’t matter. This week’s hot list: the “Women’s” March on Washington, Black joy all 2017, Black Femme Brunch, give your money to Black women, Taylor Richardson, the pathology of whiteness/white fragility/white delusion, and reminding everyone that women come in Black, brown, First Nations, trans and sex worker, femme vs. woman, and wtf were the vagina hats about? 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 @sydnerain twitter thread about her experience as an indigenous woman at the #WomensMarch: https://twitter.com/sydnerain/status/823378710833270786 Visit @MsPeoples on twitter and check out the striking image of her at The Women’s March on Washington This week’s closing clip was Ericka Hart’s speech at the Women’s March in Philly: https://www.facebook.com/zuri.pryorgraves/posts/10100807969898959 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

#88 Insert Black Centered Title Here Jan 18, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Queen is creating space for Black joy and J. is crying during her cosplay wrap up of Black Comic Book Festival. Are white folks whiting at you? We discuss Leah McSweeney and the modern day delusions of whiteness that used to get innocent Black folks killed. Also, Bishop Eddie Long is a dead rapist. Drink up! TRIGGER WARNING* We discuss child rape during the “Pit” segment of this episode. This week’s hot list: Black joy, ordering groceries in the hood, cosplay, Black Comic Book Festival, #FreeBresha, vision board parties, the pathology of whiteness/white fragility/white delusion/white-splaining all up and through Hollywood and our everyday lives, how we talk to children about sexual abuse, micro-aggressions, Queen matches with Michael Che on tinder, Steve Harvey gets racist, and all kids of cool shit in between. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS On Thursday, January 19th, 2017 we’ll be at The Free Black Woman’s Library/January #FreeBresha day of action at the Brooklyn Movement Center 5pm-9pm. Please check here for event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/242505522856201/249048138868606/?notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity&notif_id=1484747387520881 or follow The Free Black Woman’s Library on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreeBlackWomansLibrary/?fref=nf 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 For more on white delusion and Michael Che’s text exchange with an angry white woman check out Damon Young’s piece here: http://verysmartbrothas.com/why-white-women-like-leah-mcsweeney-are-a-menace-to-society-explained/ Read Angry Asian Man’s article on Steve Harvey’s racist jokes: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2017/01/steve-harvey-cannot-believe-anyone.html We reference Son of Baldwin’s article “Bishop Eddie Long Is Not The Only One Who’s Dead”. Read it *TW child rape, graphic language*: https://medium.com/@SonofBaldwin/bishop-eddie-long-is-dead-c6021e55ac9b#.yg4sjrj3l Do you identify as LGBTQ, love scifi, and wanna learn more about our friend Casey’s Gay Scifi Book Crew in NYC? Link here! https://www.meetup.com/Gay-Sci-Fi-Book-Crew/member/210610466/ This week’s closing clip in all of it’s youtube glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMKayaqMGY 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

#87 A Spot of Tea - The Oscar Globes Jan 10, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! College, how bad it sucked, and why maybe you should go anyway. Or don’t go. Who cares. Also, urban food deserts, white luxuries, and friendships among women. Drink up! This week’s hot list: the MTA, gentrification, Fresh Direct for everybody! feminism, the Golden Globes, Hidden Figures and white fragility, to go or not go to college, women/girls & friendship, the Lip Bar vs. The Lit Bar. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS Queen is hosting her first "Vision Board and Goal Setting Meet Up!" for Ms.Vixen magazine! Join us on January 15th at Von in NYC. Click the link for more info and to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/vision-board-…ets-30625202806 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 There is not one book store in the entire borough of The Bronx. Help Noelle Santos change that by supporting The Lit Bar. Crowdfunding begins in a few days! Visit http://www.thelitbar.com/ for more info. Check out our friend Dom Sindayinganza’s work at www.sindayiganza.com Queen loves her Lip Bar lipstick! Check them out https://www.thelipbar.com/ This week’s closing clip “’Hidden Fences’ Was A Smash At The Golden Globes” by The Colbert Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw4D867Ku78 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

#86 Who Are the Ancestors Tho? Jan 04, 2017

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We discuss the politics of Black men’s hair, look for safe spaces for Black sexuality, explore casual Black on Black colorism, and are you an asshole if you hate Kwanzaa? This week’s hot list: New Year rituals & traditions, sisterhood in the restroom, cocaine or nah, Haitian Independence Day, is Kwanzaa problematic?, navigating mental health during the holidays, what happens when you buck shots?, the Museum of Sex, why is sex so white everywhere all the time, porn and slavery, black kink, group sex, adventure dating, Denzel & Viola in Fences, the Black family under white supremacy, everybody hates J., Michael Slager is a murderer, Black men and their hair choices, Rasta vs. impostah. Drink up! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS Queen is hosting her first "Vision Board and Goal Setting Meet Up!" for Ms.Vixen magazine! Join us on January 15th at Von in NYC. Click the link for more info and to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/vision-board-…ets-30625202806 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 This week’s closing clip features Viola Davis in August Wilsons “Fences” on broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5LLLU_qew 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

#85 A Spot of Tea - Oh You Thought!!!? Dec 27, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! It's our last show of 2016 and instead of counting all the celebrities that died, we're celebrating all the ways that Black women killed it! Drink up! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS Queen is hosting her first "Vision Board and Goal Setting Meet Up!" for Ms.Vixen magazine! Join us on January 15th at Von in NYC. Click the link for more info and to RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vision-board-and-goal-setting-meet-up-tickets-30625202806 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 This week’s closing clip by Cardi B: https://instagram.com/p/BM6nlqDBOai/ 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.Fling for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

#84 A Spot Of Tea - I Find It Funny How... Dec 20, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Do Black women have to do everything? And why is dating absolutely terrible? This week’s hot list: Dating while womanist, the “strong Black woman”, learning to treat yo’self, make your kids do it, are women always auditioning? And just what in the absolute fvck. Drink up! 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 This week’s closing song “Grow Food” by Appetite for Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqgU3co4vcI 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.Fling for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

#83 All These Hashtags (with Mae & Tina) Dec 13, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We’re problematic as fvck when it comes to the disabled community and two of our favorite listeners Mae (@Mae_DayJ) and Tina (@Nice_White_Lady) are here getting us level one woke on the largest minority group in the U.S. Also Queen reviews the new film Hidden Figures with NO SPOILERS WE PROMISE! And we discuss pimping social justice for a check. This is our biggest episode ever! Take it in doses if you need to, but it’s all here and you gone learn today! Drink up! This week’s hot list: #SupportPOCpods, Hidden Figures movie review, catering to white fragility in Black spaces (I know, it’s weird), “white savior” mentality, cultural self-esteem, people with disabilities (PWD), #DisabilityTooWhite, accessibility, learning publicly, police & the disabled, Black/woman & disabled, Obamacare, eugenics for crying out loud, the Paralympics, Black hair and The Walking Dead, activists for hire, and white feminists (cause we gotta) 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 https://www.paypal.me/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to check out this episode’s guests online! Find Mae on twitter @Mae_DayJ , creator #ChronicLoaf for live TV chats, and help her prevent brain surgery by donating to her gofund me: https://www.gofundme.com/myIIHfight Find Tina on twitter @Nice_White_Lady , visit her website www.traumaticlifeinjury.com, and give her your money at https://cash.me/$NiceWhiteLady Mae also created the twitter account @CripsAndSpoons, that Tina helps facilitate on “awareness and activism from the intersection of disability and chronic illness” Our guests mentioned a ton of great resources for learning and support. Check out the list below! Dawn M Gibson (@DawnMGibson), creator of #SpoonieChat every Wednesday night on twitter from 8-10pm EST - https://www.paypal.me/DGibson713 Vilissa Thompson (@VilissaThompson), creator of #DisabilityTooWhite & #WOCwD, and founder of @RampYourVoice - http://rampyourvoice.com/ Tiffany (@TiffanyAndLupus), founder of #LupusChat – www.tiffanyandlupus.com Dominick Evans (@DominickEvans), discusses disability in film using #FilmDis – www.dominickevans.com Alice Wong (@DisVisibility), #TheFutureIsDisabled, https://www.patreon.com/DVP Gregg Beratan (@GreggBeratan), Andrew Pulrang (@AndrewPulrang), #CripTheVote @SpoonieCult, #SpoonieCult, #SCTweetFlix #MeBeforeAbleism -------- 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.Fling for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

#82 A Spot of Tea - Santa Or Satan Dec 06, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Is your child’s school play a tool for white supremacy? Is Santa trash? Maybe. Drink up! This week’s hot list: #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline denied passage!, ableism, activist parents, the thanksgiving myth, the Santa mythology, is Christmas hurting us?, is J. a hater, are Queen’s parents the most Black nationalist parents alive, is Kwanzaa everything?, Black Santa or nah? 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Libations to our friends @BrunchandBudget! Check them out at BrunchandBudget.com! #NoDAPL! Please visit sacredstonecamp.org/ for more information on the Dakota Access Pipeline, the water protectors, actions in your area and other ways you can help and stay involved. Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information. 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

#81 Happy Misgiving Nov 30, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Fidel Castro is dead and everyone with a facebook account is a political scientist, America hates it’s indigenous people, we recap the season finale of Insecure, and we’re not gonna stop saying white supremacy – stop asking. *WARNING INSECURE SPOILERS from moment 32:25 through 57:30* This week’s hot list: Insecure, #NoDAPL eviction, learning how not to offer an opinion because nobody asked you, the concept of “free” sex and dating, reality tv, the Bad Girls Club, femme lesbians-sexual harassment and consent, the tokening of Black women, the pathology of whiteness, that stupid article about white supremacy as a “fad”, and why our people insist on wishing us a Merry Christmas. 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Libations to Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com #NoDAPL! Please visit http://sacredstonecamp.org/ for more information on the Dakota Access Pipeline, the water protectors, actions in your area and other ways you can help. If you’re in NYC people will be gathering December 6th to “Shut Down the Wells Fargo Pipeline Symposium”. Check out the facebook event link for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1001736073283104/ Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information. 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

#80 A Spot of Tea - Keep Kanye Alive Nov 22, 2016

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Do shame and religion go hand in hand? Also mental health, and the truth about "conscious" rap and women. Drink up! *Trigger Warning* we discuss rape and infanticide for about 10 minutes starting at moment 9:00 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 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 incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information. 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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