Tea With Queen And J.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Glue gate is over! We talk about Tessica Brown, Gorilla Glue, and the ponytail that rocked the internet. Trying to keep our pets alive in a pandem, and how the United Nations went anti-Black for valentines day This week’s hot list: Whoopi Goldberg’s cheek bones deserve all the awards. Keeping your pet alive is expensive but lowkey worth it. Other Black podcasts you should be listening to. The biggest hair story in history, even the haters enjoyed it. Influencer culture and who deserves to profit off of the internet, the Rona, vaccinations and Black women’s labor stolen. 90 day fiance fatigue, flagrant colorism at the UN and mad other ish. THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR: Matriarch Creative Solutions Visit wearematriarch.co to learn more about how Matriarch Creative Solutions can support you, and subscribe to their mailing list to receive 11% off your first service. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re talking about gender, the binary, non-binary, language in general, femme, feminine, gender identity, fvcking up and learning in public, the narrow scope of womanhood and we get emotional and sh!t. THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR: Matriarch Creative Solutions Visit wearematriarch.co to learn more about how Matriarch Creative Solutions can support you, and subscribe to their mailing list to receive 11% off your first service. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations:7:26 Donation Libations: 18:26 Affirmations: 22:28 PayBlack Women: 29:06 Non-Binary Gender Discussion: 32:38 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on Twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! PAY BLACK WOMEN: Help Dee pay the outstanding balance on her electric bill so she can pay her rent on the 1st and beyond! Cashapp: $shandee9092 https://cash.app/$shandee9092 WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAn

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you a Black girl hoarder? We get into the shame of being Black, femme, and messy and the disrespect for domestic labor. Then Ottawa University goes private on Twitter after a racist moment in Black hair. And it’s Black History Month! Let the institutional capping begin! This week’s hotlist - Snowed in, in NYC, pantsless on zoom, Girl Scout cookie season! Is hoarding really a big deal? Class privilege, gender and domestic labor, outsourcing vs. slavery, shame & cleanliness, checking our privilege before posting on social media, Black hair in Kansas, and once again braids are political. More voter suppression in America, Fvck yea! THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR: Matriarch Creative Solutions Visit wearematriarch.co to learn more about how Matriarch Creative Solutions can support you, and subscribe to their mailing list to receive 11% off your first service. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 4:36

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… New President, Who dis!? We discuss Black folks and the inauguration, the Bernie memes and anti-semitism, and the age old ableist question “Is White Supremacy a mental illness?” This week’s hotlist - Words we hate, a little colorism (just a little), gossip level inauguration hot takes, our favorite war criminals, the white feminism and anti-semitism discussion surrounding that Bernie Sanders memeism, heavy handed ableism, how process the narcissism & delusion of white supremacy round these parts and mad other sh!t EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 3.24 Donation libations: 8:38 Affirmations: 10:16 Post-Inauguration Thots: 12:36 Bernie, white feminism & anti-semitism: 31:21 Ableism & the white supremacy/mental illness question: 47:30 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on Twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenA

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… It’s that time of year when everybody got Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name in they mouth and we want to set a few things straight. Also, the most recent acts of white domestic terrorism, and how to know when you’re friendly neighborhood healer is a scammer This week’s hotlist - We’re back, so New Year, new energy, or whatever. Oh yeah, we watched “Woke”on Hulu… (no spoilers). #Schomcom, a “coup” vs. an “insurrection”, language manipulation and media, stochastic terrorism, The correlation between class and race ignored in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, increasing the minimum wage, why spiritually and bigotry shouldn’t be working together, how we allow white supremacy in Black healing spaces and how to avoid it, colorism, and paying Black women and femmes! THIS WEEKS SPONSOR 635 Community Health Collective’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TS Yoga) Visit 635communityhealthcollective.com/ O

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Happy Kwanzaa! We recorded an extra episode just for you! We talk about the way Covid is showing up in our tv and movies, how the global pandem has changed us on a personal level, and we look back on who and what had us fvcked up this year. This week’s hotlist - New pandemic, new you, managing time in isolation, why case for capitalism is weakening, relationship dynamics in the apocalypse, therapy, matching loungewear (get into it), spoiler free TV - Netflix’s “Big Mouth” and race, coronavirus on tv, Love In The Time of Corona, Social Distance, This Is Us gets more Black, Black-ish, Saved By The Bell again, Fargo and the Black holiday joy of Dance Dreams: The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker and Jingle Jangle. Non-Black POC’s post George Floyd, mehn, overall weird of vacationing during a global pandem and mad other ish... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS How Has the Pandemic Changed You?: 5:14 What We’re

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Do Black people need to be on the same page about the sh!t non-Black people say? Then investment advisor Lydia Idem joins us to discuss the future of water, water futures, what they, who owns water in this babylon country, and whether you can play in the stock market and dismantle white supremacist patriarchal capitalism at the same time. This week’s hotlist - Our pets don’t respect us, honoring rest, the Black joy that held us down in 2020, negro solstice and Black superpowers, harm reduction and prioritizing the harmed, everyone can’t be down with AAVE - stop trying, affirm a brokerage account, investing your investments in investing ass Black people that need you to invest, you got a 401k or nah? You got $5 for stocks and bawnds? And water futures are confusing but we figured it out. . .we think? THIS WEEKS SPONSOR 635 Community Health Collective’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TS Yoga) Vis

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… If you were waiting for a global pandemic to land before finally getting into Kwanzaa, this is your year! We make plans and affirmations, we pay Black women, uncover ANOTHER racist bill and throw a bunch of men in the pit because why the fvck not? This week’s hotlist - Queen bouta DIY high end tech at the crib, are you tipping people during the pandem? Kwanzaa over Karenga, you can still get the principles on, family zooms or nah, Missouri’s anti-protest bill, taking up space on social media, the lawless internet of the zero zero’s and mad other ish... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 2:44 Donation libations: 19:33 Affirmations: 26:05 Get into Kwanzaa: 29:17 Pay Black Women: 58:45 Oh, so ya’ll wanna kill protestors?: 1:10:06 Men, clubhouse, and the yikes factor: 1:26:13 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We don’t believe in humble, but Dave Chappelle is getting on our nerves! Then Blackness, regular Black, Foundational Black, ADOS, Barack, Kamala, and all that in a big conflated nuance lacking sandwich of ‘What does the Black diaspora mean today?’. This week’s hotlist - Birthday affirmations work! Therapy, plants and feel good music, Dave Chappelle’s branding as “epic”, Black mediocrity goals and Kevin Hart. Diaspora wars, ADOS, FBA, the rules of Black ethnicity, race, culture, some chattel slavery facts, intersections of privilege, and all kinds of Black and nuanced sh*t bc the Black experience is NUANCED and that’s powerful! THIS WEEKS SPONSOR 635 Community Health Collective’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TS Yoga) 635communityhealthcollective.com/ Or email them at 635communityhealthcollective@gmail.com EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 7:16 Donation libations 20:04 Affirmations 23:40 Dave

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… is Will Smith a whole cry baby? We dissect that warm and fuzzy Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reunion, but also... is he a whole cry baby? Then, the worst voice over you heard in your entire life, and what YOU can do about the Georgia Senate runoffs This week’s hotlist - Half & Half is a comfort jam, quality colorism convos, Janet Hubert sitcom ether, Red Table Talk, male fragility too fragility, support Indiginous women whicho coins, why we still have this election on the brain, audio black-face, how to be a co-conspirator to marginalized demographics in your industry and mad other ish... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 2:41 Donation libations: 9:06 Affirmations: 13:04 The Fresh Prince & Janet Hubert: 16:06 Pay Black Women: 50:48 What We Doin About Georgia:55:54 The Pit:1:04:50 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Grown ass women on film, our homegirl Lacresha Berry joins us as we review the Netflix film 40 year old version, talk about the politics of being grown with no kids (there are politics, we promise!) Black New York, sex and mad other sh!t. This week’s hotlist - Afro’s and Audio festival was lit. That 30 for 30 list is complete trash. Big Toni Morrison energy, Posse scholarships, struggle porn, Charm City Kings and Black New York in black and white. From hiphop to headwraps, and everything in between. Creative gatekeepers, the MTA, teenagers shooting their shot, and much much more... SPONSOR Good Neighbor www.goodneighbor.care 855-355-7001 EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 5:06 Donation libations: 8:52 Affirmations: 11:05 The Forty Year Old Version: 15:16 Sh!t we liked 20:40 Sh!t we thought was meh 45:07 Is 30 under 30 toxic? 58:52 Dealing with parents & mortality 1:07:44 Happily single

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Joe Biden was voted president but more importantly Tr*mp and his stank booty were fired. We talk about what that even means in a white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal society, Black joy at a time like this and mad other sh!t. This week’s hotlist - The election is over and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are bouta get this work! Have you been outside tho? Hiking? Botanical Gardens? Go and get your nature on. How are we in a whole pandemic and white co-workers are still showing their ass? HOW! Don’t worry, we got something for that too. Afros & Audio Virtual Podcast Festival tickets & information: https://linktr.ee/afrosandaudio Receive 25% off of your virtual ticket using code: afautqj20 SPONSOR Good Neighbor www.goodneighbor.care 855-355-7001 EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 4:18 Donation libations 16:55 Affirmations 18:48 Election Done! Now what? 21:29 My boss is yt and wilding 1:05:

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Has the apocalypse begun?.... Maybe. We get into voter suppression at the polls, how to stop a whole ass governmental coup, and a window into that segment of wealthy Black folks that vote that pockets over their people This week’s hotlist - Black girls in costume, managing election season depression, stress and anxiety, how voter suppression is upsetting me and my home girl, do you have a go-bag packed? Paul Rudd, and his cookies, Channing Crowder, Brandon Marshall and why Individualism isn’t Black for people. Football and capitalism, America’s favorite things, wealth and morality and mad other ish... Afros & Audio Virtual Podcast Festival tickets & information: https://linktr.ee/afrosandaudio Receive 25% off of your virtual ticket using code: afautqj20 SPONSOR Good Neighbor www.goodneighbor.care 855-355-7001 EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 4:56 Donation libations 16:37 Affirmations 20

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…We been in covid-19 quarantino for 8 whole months! How are we doing and how are ya’ll doing? Then what do you do when your job wants to be cheap about racial bias training? And... is privilege fvcking up your friendships? This week’s hotlist - wellness checkin for that ass, being enough, carefree quarantine binge tv, anti-racist work at work, are your white friends, your straight friends, your cis friends good friends?... and mad other ish Afros & Audio Virtual Podcast Festival tickets & information: https://linktr.ee/afrosandaudio Receive 25% off of your virtual ticket using code: afautqj20 SPONSOR Good Neighbor www.goodneighbor.care 855-355-7001 EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 3:50 Donation Libations 9:10 Affirmations 12:03 Mid Rona wellness check 14:04 So you wanna talk about race at work? 57:10:04 Is your problematic privileged friend still your friend? 1:15:47 Tweet us while you l

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…‘Sis - auntie - girl - mama - We get into the politics of Black labels and who can call who what. Then, the Black celebrities trying to sabotage the election, and ‘tu siempre negrita del Bronx’ reminds us that Black girl erasure is the same in English and Spanish. This week’s hotlist - Let’s have waffles! Small purchases for self-care (you deserve!). “Auntie” and centering women over 40 (it’s not as bad as it sounds, we promise). #EndSARS cuz police violence happens throughout the diaspora. Ice Cube, T.I., Kanye might be the feds. Black women erasure by way of J.Lo…again and mad other ish SPONSOR Love. Lavender. Shea. Organics www.Lovelavendershea.com EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 2:53 Donation Libations 9:23 Affirmations 11:50 “Auntie” and other labels good & meh 14:13 News That’s Not News #EndSARS #EndSWAT 55:20 Pay Black Women 1:06:04 The Pit 1:10:53 Tweet us while you liste

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…white people call each other out and it don’t have sh*t to do with us, you love to see it! Also the impact of messaging in audio vs visual media, colorism as a global phenomenon, working while Black AND FREE! (can you do both?) And checking your straight privilege while dating. This week’s hotlist - Go to the doctor yo. Saturday Night Live isn’t our Jam, but Bill Burr made us laugh. White women’s accountability for their role in white supremacy. Y’all watching Real Housewives of Potomac? Revisiting Brown Skin Girl and Beyoncé’s video vs audio representation. Workplace advice in a free Black context (that’s what we be doing). Rethinking ‘I May Destroy You’, nuances and privilege in dating, is it deceitful not to disclose sexuality if you’re trying to avoid bigotry? aaaand mad other ish... SPONSOR Love. Lavender. Shea. Organics www.Lovelavendershea.com Receive 10% off your purchase usi

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Should we still use the term white supremacy or is it overdone, over used, and affirming all the wrong things? Also, what we’re watching, including Black queer narratives in our collective Black history, and catering to white fragility on the timeline This week’s hotlist - Sex, cuddles and healing. Routines, rituals and time for activities. Going braless and wearing comfort lingerie and dassit! Cheryl Dunye, The Watermelon Woman and queer Black narratives. Vampires vs. the Bronx, BX STAND UP!! Coddling white folks, ain’t nobody got time for that. Black spirituality for freedom. Getting ahead of voter suppression, racism in Canada EH! and mad other ish... TICKETS TO DRUNK BLACK HISTORY https://linktr.ee/drunkblackhistory SPONSOR Love. Lavender. Shea. Organics www.Lovelavendershea.com Receive 10% off your purchase using code “TEA” now through October 19, 2020 EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Lib

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re reviewing the HBO series “I May Destroy You”. This is a spoiler full episode so if you care about spoilers, go watch the series and come back to us! Content warning, this series explores themes of rape and sexual assault and we will be discussing those themes of rape and sexual assault and at times our own experiences with rape and sexual assault. Our mental health counselor homie Akua of Inner Hoe Uprising podcast joins for added support, but if you feel like this episode is not for you, we get it. We start the show with our usual banter, so if you wanna tap in for that and then turn it off, we get that too. This week’s hotlist - Birthday joy, roller skate bling bling, virtual auntie time with Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight. Micheala Cole is a bad bitch genius. TICKETS TO DRUNK BLACK HISTORY https://linktr.ee/drunkblackhistory SPONSOR Love. Lavender. Shea. Organics www.Lo

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is it our fault that a whole new lipless white woman lied about being Black for 10 years? Probably not but we’re talking about identity again, cuz shit is getting super weird. This week’s hotlist - Quick housekeeping about who we center in our work. Talk to us nice dammit. Hug your elders, cuddle your boo, affirm abundance for everyone. Failed recordings but we are still here getting Black women paid! Network vs. Community, Empaths & The Pynk, Colorism is always in style. Bronx accents are not Boston accents, we don't understand why we even have to say this. Black identity, Afrolatinx erasure, Jessica Krug, and a delicious juicy pitt! SPONSOR Love. Lavender. Shea. Organics www.Lovelavendershea.com FREE shipping on your first purchase using code “TEA” now through September 21, 2020 10% off your purchase using code “TEA” starting September 22 through October 19, 2020 EPISODE TIMESTAM

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… You’re a Black feminist but you got a whole misogynoirist at the crib drinking up all the juice in the house. How the fvck did that happen? Then Black American, African-American, or Black, how are we defining ourselves and does it even matter in the 2020’s??? This week’s hotlist - Shemar Moore’s viral Black joy, anxiety & mental health, Whitney Houston, mindless TV, affirmations and how not to give up on 2020, men and misogynoir, growth in romantic relationships, women vs. females (yep, again), African American vs. Black American and maybe you should just mind your business and more... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 4:50 Donation libations 20:44 Affirmations 24:49 A note on language and Black trans women 33:34 Your husband is misogynist 39:26 Black, African-American, Afro-American 57:14 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others disco