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… So you love Black trans women but what are you doing about it? We talk about dating men in a trans antagonistic world and what part cisgender women play in the equation. Then we get into police unions, hair shit, and define snitching because what does that even mean anymore This week’s hotlist - We’re (safely) in the streets of a covid summer, but where? Are you watching Lovecraft Country? Some quick spoiler free notes on “I May Destroy You”, dismantling transphobia in our cis relationships, unions for the people are good, unions for cops not so good, 4C hair afros and deception, snitching (a reimagining), Megan Thee Stallion and who was protecting who, and mad other ish! EPISODE TIMESTAMPS I May Destroy You 3:36 Outside during that rona 8:43 Lovecraft Country 16:02 Affirmations 23:54 Co-conspiratorship with Black trans women 27:11 Abolish police unions? 50:32 Moment in Black Hair 1

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is it ok to shame other Black people about voting? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are on the ticket, Trump is Trumping us to death, and feelings are ranging from scared to excited to complacent. Then on a scary but sexy note we try dating during a pandemic, since we’re still in a fvcking pandemic. This week’s hotlist - Black girl skaters, gun violence, vote shaming, individuals vs the collective, voting your privilege, the world we want vs the world we live in, choosing the enemy, Black dating stereotypes, dating cis men while trying to be free, and mad other sh!t... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 3:53 content warning gun violence 5:22- 14:58 Donation libations 18:22 Voting 23:28 Dating in that rona 1:04:08 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode . . . We choose our covid cohorts and go the fvck outside. Then we get into accessibility in podcasting, a little local genocide (you know how they do), and a Jamaican moment in Black hair... This week’s hotlist - Social Distancing at the beach, a Long Island adventure, and creating a COVID Cohort you can trust. Sterilization, eugenics, and Black genocide cause white sumpremacy. Global respectability politics, anti establishment, rastafarianism and “dreadlocks”. Podcast apps are failing us, accessibility at large corporations and mad other ish... EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 2:18 Affirmations 10:32 Tea Talk 12:40 Moment In Black Hair 28:35 Pay Black Women 41:12 News That’s Not News 46:26 The Pitt 58:07 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Tw

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… It’s a womanist race nerd Black feminist content creator mash up as we interview Kimberly Nicole Foster, creator of For Harriet. We also catch up and talk about what it means to safely adapt to a world with coronavirus. This week’s hotlist - We’re back from July Break! We chat about self care, plants, adapting to life during da Rona as NYC reopens, Black Feminism vs. Womanism, being critiqued in public, online harassment, religion, coming of age in pop-culture, twitter friends or not, wage transparency, 4C hair wins and mad other sh!t. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 2:55 Affirmations 14:22 Interview Recap 24: 57 Kimberly Foster 30:09 Black feminism & labels 34:52 Black church & coming of age sh!t 37:49 Blogging to vlogging 50:44 Classism, college & content 1:06:50 Black hair in quarantine 1:45:48 Success, academia & capitalism 1:50:24 Money & Business 2:02:00 Tweet us while you lis

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What the fuck is restorative justice yo? We talk about how messy revolution can be, the nuances of Black identity, biracial identity and who gets to have Blackjoy, Then we get into the too toxic for TV gender exclusive relationship between Black men and women This week’s hotlist - Transformative and Restorative justice is something we’re all learning. Revolutions ain’t perfect, everyone calm down. Crime vs. harm, Navigating a hit and run, a scooter and toot, a white and flight, transphobia, misogynoir, gaslighting, and other cis-man abuse. Black girl magic comes with responsibility and Black joy is radical. Learn how to rest. Light skinned vs white passing privilege. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations 3:52 Donation libations 14:50 Tea talk 22:36 Affirmations 25:36 Restorative justice & social media 34:00 “Black” “men” “vs.” “Black” “women” 1:00:00 Biracial vs light skinned vs white passi

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Fireworks are going off non-stop in Black and brown communities around the country, why is it happening and who’s behind it? We also Pay Black women, and explore what happens to a holiday like Juneteenth when everybody and they mama start celebrating This week’s hotlist - the Beyoncé’s of Juneteenth, Juneteenth is happening in Mexico, Afro Latinx erasure in Mexico, virtual kickback recap, Black Joy, fireworks, daily affirmations, pay Black women, conspiracy theories and psychological warfare, Covid is still here people, wear your mask. EPISODE TIMESTAMPS 19:51 Juneteenth Virtual Kickback recap 40:45 Oh so now everybody fvcking with Juneteenth 47:22 NTNN Juneteenth & Mexico 54:34 coopting Juneteenth 59:05 Pay Black Women 1:06:50 The Pit - Fireworks theory Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. pod

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Black Trans Lives Matter, the ancestors and the groundwork they laid that led us to exposing racists on twitter and getting them fired (so delicious), voter suppression, and being in ear shot of white folks at work and why today is good day to go to HR This week’s hotlist - Black transphobia and Black liberation, Black trans ancestors too, celebrate white failure, pay equity in public, get a pet that fvcks with you, open your purse, covid still in these streets, fomo during dat rona, isolation is getting harder, that rona still out there, voter suppression, voter purging, individual responsibility vs structural systemic oppression, yelling at each other vs yelling at the system, black and confrontational at work, isolation as tool of white supremacy, emotional labor, go to HR, and mad other ish... Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help ot

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Sh*t is still on fire but we pour libations for the things giving us Black joy. Then pandering white folks, Black folks and conditional solidarity that excludes Black trans folks, and Terry Crews keeps throwing Black people under the bus wtf... This week’s hotlist - Black Trans Lives Matter, supportive friends during quarantino, Black people laughing, graphic design will end racism, Juneteenth, Iyanna Dior, intersectionality in the movement, now they believe Black people, foot washing, a lil Christianity tale, whiteness & performative apologies, @pullupforchange #pulluporshutup, big business and Black Lives Matter, Betty on HBO, Pay Black Women, police aggression and the spread of covid-19, protest guilt, catering to white fragility during an uprising and mad other ish... Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Que

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… The country is on fire, celebrities are talking out of turn instead of turning to their local organizers, ni**as is moving to Ghana, white protesters are centering themselves, and we are not ok This week’s hotlist - Support protestors, Insecure gave us love, Queering The Curve, support a bailout fund, sharing on social with caution, opting in vs being accosted by news, the illusion of freedom, our ain’t sh*t friends, white liberals are not ok, your non-Black POC friends think you’re lying, property over people, the good and bad of white protesters, why NYC is different, are businesses pandering? Obama the magical negro, Black celebrities vs everyday Black sh*t, who are your local community organizers, social media for white gaze, leave us alone, move to Ghana, send us a post card and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What do you do with your vote in a sh!tty election? Does Lana Del Rey mean “white womanhood” in Spanish? And COVID-19’s effect on the Indigenous communities that many of us forget This week’s hotlist - Pets are great, Bounty Killer verzuz Beenie Man, melodic hate speech, fvck them jobs, protect your space, listen to The Black Guy Who Tips, go to the doctor, natural hair thriving in quarantino, that Lana Del Rey feminism, that Joe Biden entitlement, to vote or not to vote, what’s at stake, pay black women, #tinytub, indigenous relief orgs, late ass covid news, everyone should celebrate Juneteenth… kinda, and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! SAVE THE DATE: JUNETEEN VIRTUAL KICKBACK, Friday June 19th, 9-11pm RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juneteenth-virtual-kickback-

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What does Black Muslim erasure look like when it comes from other Black people? And people BEEN lying on social media, but are we lying less, now that the rona got us reflecting on life? This week’s hotlist - Stay home still! White people need to do the work, Ahmad Arbery, allies vs co-conspirators, mindless entertainment, hoteps out of context, quarantine pets, Black Muslim erasure, Who Killed Malcolm X on Netflix, read the autobiography of Malcolm X, Nation of Islam cultural influence and erasure, Islam is not a monolith, what we learn about muslim identity, Black Muslim erasure vs Black American Muslim erasure, Muhammad Ali, Google some shit, how to ask a basic ass question, Black creatives and 9-5s, who are you without work, rona identity crisis, re-evaluating our online personas, job security, 9-5 shaming and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… White supremacist domestic terrorism is showing it’s whole entire ass. We also revisit Dennis Rodman’s wedding dress, and wonder if celebrities are social distancing like at all? This week’s hotlist - Are you still social distancing? Rob the botanist, Girl trek with Nikki Giovanni & Angela Davis, #DaughtersOf, shelter in place is not “lockdown”, #TheLastDance, Dennis Rodman and queer identity, Dennis Rodman vs Allen Iverson vs Blackness, adult influence, domestic terrorism but make it Russian, Ahmaud Arbery, the lone white shooter myth, celebrity lies and mad other sh!t Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.t

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We get into the stereotype of Asians as the “model minority”, what it means to the white supremacist power structure that created it vs. what it means to Black folks like us. Then after the break a content warning for discussions of sexual assault as we talk about your rapey friends, coersion and the tragic ways men respond to allegations on the timeline. Sexual assault discussion begins at 1:04:41 This week’s hotlist - Everythings is a corona capsule, dance class at the crib, police brutality for Black folks, free masks for white folks, everything’s fine (sike!), Black & Asian solidarity, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, model minority - a myth vs a construct, The Grapevine, reading the room, Dussepalooza, Blogxilla, creep signs, coercion, are you an accessory to sexual assault, the creep in your crew, Black feminism and male friends, and mad other sh!ts. Tweet us while you listen! #te

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… is the new Netflix series #blackAF a brown paper bag test? And can we be colorist while critiquing colorism? The film United Skates documents a Black history that we forgot we remembered. Social distancing is affecting disabled folks in ways that not enough of us are talking about. And white people white peopling during the pandemic This week’s hotlist - quarantine at your own pace, roller skating (remember Black ass roller skating!?), watch United Skates on HBO, unexpected Black history, Kenya Barris, colorism, #BlackAF on Netflix, challenges of being deaf or blind during corona, shelter in place protesters compare themselves to civil rights leaders, Gen Z tries to kill us and mad other sh*t. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter:

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… the internet is full of Black ass comedy! We get into who’s making us laugh (Teddy Riley), some of the politics behind your decorative face mask, and music vs. gender... This week’s hotlist - Are you sleeping tho? Be a good neighbor, shop teasbyg.com, don’t forget the introverts, we’re still on our Netflix watch party shit, avoid Soul Plane at all costs, spit talkers are a thing, face coverings and appropriation, normalizing the pandemic, Muslim erasure, Janelle James, listen to comedy albums on Spotify, watch Black Monday, yt voices and the n-word, cyber church, the pathology of Teddy Riley, Babyface the vampire, where’s Missy Elliot and who do we need to fight, and mad other shit Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.c

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Groceries, cleaning supplies and guns are on quarantine shopping lists across the country (fvck is up with that)? We try to date without dying, and wonder if the global pandem is making white folks more racisty or if this is just their time to shine... This week’s hotlist - Essential workers are out here keeping this sh!t afloat, wash your ass during quarantino, family zoom calls and the Black church goodbye, dating the man dem during the pandem, HBO’s free streaming, United Skates, fashion vloggers are the new outside, who’s getting cute during that rona? Guns sales is poppin (that’s bad tho), the “Barack boom” is as awkward as racism, tattoos and Black skin, don’t break my edges, white people are whiting hard right now, and mad other ish! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Coronavirus is wild racist! How does race come into play with that rona? Meanwhile the Supreme Court is low key out here fvcking with discrimination law. And is this a good time to shed mediocre friendships? Or does the global pandem have us too shook This week’s hotlist - Getchu a zoom therapist, watch Maumoudou Athie in “Uncorked” and “Oh Jerome, No”, bounce in thine house, so that Byron Allen lawsuit is kind of a big deal (like, for all of us), the #dontrushchallenge is tearing people apart! PWI vs HBCU (a fvcking gain), a positive attitude is a wasteman ting, coronavirus and racial data, CDC not doing data like they used to, potential biases in covid treatment and analysis, and mad other ish! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitt

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We explore Black ass stripper culture, the government says fuck your rights and puts affirmative action on pause, and while some celebrities are DJing us through that rona others are using social media to get on whatever nerves we have left. This week’s hotlist - Street harassment through a face mask, tip your instagram DJ, “This One’s For The Ladies” and “Shakedown” documentaries, Black masculinity & stripper culture, throwback bodies, the “burden” of equal employment opportunities, did you complete the census? Black Trans resources during dat rona, celebrities need their own twitter, #teamnosleep by accident, Golden Girls reruns and mad other sh!t! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We find other ways to connect with one another during that Rona, voter suppression stays too legit to quit, and tell your parents and your church aunty to stay the fvck home! This week’s hotlist - Crystal Mason and voter suppression, get into that Netflix party app, #neverforget YouTube, grooming during dat rona, affirmations will still pop during dat quarantine, Harvey Weinstein and his feeble protection plan, Idris wife got that rona because duh, keep the elders out the church! Performative christrianity, what does an executive order to stay home look like for black folks? you don’t have to rise and grind culture your way through the pandemic, and mad other sh!t! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagra

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Coronavirus got people shook! And with good reason. We navigate social media in a pandemic, voting in an era of social distance, what congress is doing about your job, and how we’re all getting through that rona! This week’s hotlist - STAY CALM BUT TAKE IT SERIOUS, information vs. panic, crisis but make it community minded, stop hoarding sh!t, breaking toxic habits in the spirit of dat rona, maybe still vote tho, file for unemployment fam, abortions rights and the Hyde amendment because dat rona isn’t stressful enough, also sh!t showers and mad other ish! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL &