Tea With Queen And J.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Can you keep your favorites if they hate women? We discuss music & misogyny, macro & micro aggressions in higher education, male birth control, buying weave, and the dehumanization of the gold digger. 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Pinkies up 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 Visit J.'s favorite renaissance man and partner in costume creation Ronie Reives on instagram @darrkstarr and his alter ego Viki Villainess @ihatevikivillainess We'd like to thank Tiffany Martinez for sharing her story

We discuss Black humanity in film with our reviews of Moonlight, Atlanta, Insecure and Surviving Compton. Dr. Dre, sleep with one eye open. This week's hot list: We review the new film Moonlight, a thoughtful response from a listener, Black humanity on screen with Atlanta & Insecure, we watched Surviving Compton and wtf is Dr. Dre's problem?, portrayals of Black gay men in film, more good times with Zahira & TK in the studio, and we challenge white folks to challenge their racist grannies. Trigger Warning: We discuss the lifetime movie Surviving Compton, which is largely a story of domestic violence. 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 Be sure to check out Zahira Kelly on Twitter and Instagram @bad_dominicana Listen to her podcast: bumpers.fm/zahira Check out her artwork: www.shop

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Fellow Bronx homegirl Zahira Kelly aka @bad_dominicana joins us for an epic chat on how one can be woman, Black and Latinx at the same damn time. Also, the Great Barrier Reef, interracial hysteria, and unhinged Facebook friends. Drink up! This week's hot list: What is Afro-Latinx?, anti-Blackness in Latin America, colorism, passing, womanism vs. feminism, slut vs thot, cranes in the sky, written vs oral storytelling, bean pies, social media trolls, racism in art, racism in science, wait - look out the window... racism!, how to be Black, white gaze, Black women and interracial couples, gate keepers, and a really fun sister circle as Zahira and TK join us on the mic! 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.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We spend most of this episode mapping the coordinates of the "inner city" because where is that sh*t really? Also prison strikes, NY Comic Con, and mental health. Drink up! This week's hot list: NY Comic Con panels and level one wokeness, hip hop & comic book culture, how to support Haiti hurricane relief initiatives, the national prison strike, slave labor to prison labor, Belly (the movie), the role of white women in the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, presidential debates and the mystery of the "inner city", the illegality of Blackness, and J. gets really personal about depression and mental health 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 Pinkies up to Conscious for engi

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Is Luke Cage really that culturally Black? Also, Nate Parker's PR team is on the longest coffee break ever. Drink up! Trigger warning* at moment 50:21 we discuss rape and the Nate Parker rape allegations This week's hot list: J. gets ready for New York Comic Con, we discuss the Luke Cage series: Black experience vs. Black culture, Robin Robert's interviews Nate Parker of Birth of a Nation on GMA and he's worse than we thought, and Solange's new album is the sweetest whisper of a loud Black womanist read and we love 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! The Supreme Court says Black hair is illegal in 2016; Moms are out here having sex; And your favorite facebook comedian is not funny. Drink up! ...... This week's hot list: SCOTUS tells us that hair isn't racialized, don't get got by the "Free Hugs" guy, mirror sex, Nollywood is epic family viewing, breastfeeding for everyone, our parents are mad sexy (yours too), mass incarceration, 4C Edges: A Retrospective, Facebook: The Devil's Playground, ...... 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 ...... EVENTS Do you thrift? Have you never thrift shopped, but want to? Come to Queen's "The Thrift Splurge" event! --> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thrift-splurge-ms-vixen-f

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We're getting our Black joy on with Queen of Katwe, free books, and an old lady named Opal. Drink up! This week's hot list: the film Queen of Katwe, Juneteenth, #opalswalktoDC, old ladies, Black joy, Marc Jacob's stankin' ass, The Free Black Woman's Library, The Brooklyn Movement, Alicia Key's personal mission to ruin everything, and general good times. 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 Please check out friend to the show, photographer Dom Sindayiganza's amazing work at www.sindayiganza.com (@sindayiganza) Ruddy Roye's (@ruddyroye) "When Living Is A Protest" exhibit is on view at the Steven Kasher Gallery alongside "Power to the People: The Black Panthers" both on display un

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We did our first live show! But first, Queen slides in #TeacherBae's DM's and J.'s over Black misery TV. Drink up! This week's hot list: the audio from our first live show! Essence Style Block Party, Queen Sugar (some very minor spoilers), colorism, #TeacherBae, working while bad bitch, Black struggle television, and more Black joy. 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 Pinkies up to Bondfire Radio for including us in their 3rd Annual Bondfire Radio Audio Festival! Be sure to check out www.BondfireRadio.com, Real Radio for Real People! Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him an

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! As the sun sets on hoe summer 16, we welcome "Hey You" season, and shoot the shit about crime, jouvert, and the objectification of Black men. Drink up! This week's hot list: white feminism, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, the objectification of Black men, Black male expression, body shaming, West Indian Day Parade, jouvert, recap of our live show at #BFRAudioFest, cuffing season aka "hey you" season, tindering, RIP hoe summer, the death of the nutcracker, crime in the city, cops, Mayor DeBlasio, gentrification and general fuck shit. 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 EVENTS Please nominate us to be invited to South By South Lawn! A White House Festival of Art, Ideas, and Action! Deadline is 5pm Sep

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Waves are the Black man's perm, fuck the French, and do white people have google? Drink up! This week's hot list: The Black Girl Project, storytelling, fellow podcasts in color, blerds, 4D movies, burkinis, fuckin France, Black Men & Beards - A Natural Hair Story, respectability & Black nationalism, Malcolm X, Bresha Meadows, juvenile justice system, the Washington Post learns the word misogynoir, white people discover more things that already existed, Leslie Jones, summer sex, and other delights 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 EVENTS Queen and J. will be broadcasting live from the 3rd Annual Bondfire Radio Audio Festival on Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 2pm. Check the link for tickets and

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! It's another Spot of Tea episode and we're asking the question, what are the effects of porn besides orgasm? Also, J. finally watched The Get Down, and could they not find a Jamaican woman to play Herc's mother? Other than that she loved it! Drink up! *Trigger warning: we discuss rape from 15:25 through 23:15* This week's hot list: Elizabeth Smart's campaign against porn, is porn problematic, mad other stuff about porn, dominance/dating & sex, The Get Down (we're from the Bronx, we still love it)& unity, misogyny, Power on Starz, and more porn stuff. 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 EVENTS Queen and J. will be broadcasting live from the 3rd Annual Bondfire Radio Audio Festival on Saturday,

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Shitting on Black women is an Olympic sport, TV gets whiter, and white folks desperately want to live with Black folks, but not really tho'. Drink up! This weeks hot list: The Get Down, Luke Cage, Blackness as click bait, Queen's hood cat, the Olympics, Black folks and the politics of swimming, the Black national anthem, Pitzer student says 'nah' to white roommates, J.'s alma mater does something less racist than usual, #AtlantaFX, how to stay in your lane, The Nightly Show, nutcrakers, that troll ass tabloidist ass troll Nico Hines, and more! Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj Pinkies up to Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! You can find him on twitter @Conscious, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tu

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Black folks and sunblock & everybody and periods. Drink up! This weeks hot list: periods, periods, periods. What do you know about periods? What were you taught? We discuss the joys and horrors of menstruation, and the bloody butt mystery... Also the beach, being Black & sunburnt, and native NYers in Long Island. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WEBSITE TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com EVENTS Queen and J. will be broadcasting live from the 3rd Annual Bondfire Radio Audio Festival on Saturday, September 3, 2016. Check the link for tickets and info! http://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-bondfire-radio-audio-festival-tickets-26991591577?aff=efbevent NOTES & EXTRA TEA Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneD

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We ask the questions... Do you hit your kids? Do you have the right not to vote? And who asked Michael Jordan? Drink up! *Trigger Warning: We discuss corporal punishment from about moment 21:55 through 41:00* This weeks hot list: NYC Summer, Problematic Blerd Bae, New York Comic Con, the films Southside With You & Marshall, hoteps explained, colorist, corporal punishment, Michael Jordan, Game of Thrones, mac & cheese, voting rights, tickle fights, and your mom. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj Pinkies up to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com 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 tw

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Your favorite bi-weekly podcast is going weekly, with the reintroduction of our shorter 'A Spot of Tea' episodes! Drink up! *Trigger Warning: we discuss rape from around moment 8:35 through 13:00* This week's hot list includes: the new Smoochr app, #shutdownsmoochr, college friends, Tinder, the Bae app, Soul Swipe, group sex terminology, colorism, and other shenanigans. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj 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 https://twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/status/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.tu

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Fellow Black women podcasters Sam (@slamridd) & Shanika (@shanpowell4) of 'Inner Hoe Uprising' visit the show this week and we bond over hoe shit in our biggest sex episode ever. Also, please make your own plate at the cookout. Drink up! This episodes hot list: making plates, hoe shit, going commando, sex, polyamory a how-to-guide, vaginas, fertility, cookouts, hoteps & hoodteps, queer Black feminism, religion, what is "anti-police", #loudBlackgirls, how to protest - to march or not to march, and other shenanigans. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj You can listen to Inner Hoe Uprising on Soundcloud, iTunes and wherever podcasts are found! Also follow them on twitter and instagram @slam_pow. 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 https://twitter.com/dwayn

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! As usual, Queen wants more free porn on Orange Is The New Black; David Banner is the hood-tep captain; natural hair shrinkage, we get it, get over yourself; and other shenanigans and shenanery. Drink up! This episode's hot list: the documentary film Breaking a Monster, we tear #OITNB to shreds, discuss depictions of vets on TV, lack of diversity in the writers room, colorism on camera, the weird Jesse Williams vs. David Banner featuring Morgan Freeman meme's, the internet's favorite #MrStealYourGrandma, the "natural hair movement", natural hair shrinkage, beauty standards, missing girls of color in the Bronx, and cheating vs polyamory. Feel free to tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WARNING: Orange Is The New Black spoilers from about moment 9:30 through 41:25. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We survived our first podcast event and we're back talking about Palestine, fake hair and the ups and downs of the #MeetAMuslim hashtag and short film. Drink up! This episode's hot list: #MeetAMuslim, Juneteenth, @frobabies instagram, Womanhood or Woman's Hurt documentary, natural hair, weaves, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israel, working while woke, floods in Ghana, the American flag, mainstream media, and Podcasts In Color Feel free to tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj Find more about "Womanhood or Woman's Hurt" documentary here: http://womanhoodorwomanshurt.com #MeetAMuslim video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9dwHYu_EK4 Check out PodcastsInColor.com for the biggest directory of Black podcasts and more! 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

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Dear Black people, stop working so hard to please white strangers. Chill with that. This episode's hot list: The Mart 125, Dance Africa, drum circles, Black guilt, prom season, Muhammad Ali, Governor's Ball, Makossa, gentrification, Plan B, The Real World, Dayshen Mckenzie, Facebook's food porn fetish, and Black unity or nah? Drink up! We're throwing a party and you're invited! Click the link for info and tickets to "THE COME UP: JUNETEENTH DAY PARTY" in NYC--> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-come-up-junteenth-day-party-tickets-25560326625 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 pet

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Black hair artifacts that should be retired, the difference between podcasting and inciting a hate riot, and the hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite. Drink up! We're throwing a party and you're invited! Click the link for info and tickets to "THE COME UP: JUNETEENTH DAY PARTY" in NYC--> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-come-up-junteenth-day-party-tickets-25560326625 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 J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer