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… We talk about dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, but how do you conduct business and topple the system at the same damn time? How do you resist the system and still network? We’re talking about building community, the sh!t is old as time. This week’s hot list: #PodinLiveNYC recap, laughing and sh!t, branding, community building vs. toxic networking, the significance of queer spaces for non-queer people, She’s Gotta Have It is back on Netflix (mmmkay), podcasting, event planning, event management, and not being a fvcking asshole 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 & SPONSOR INQU

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What do dating profiles have do to with class, gender and misogynoir? Nothing, just everything. Then, how to say no to colorism in hollywood, how the UN is dealing with wartime sexual violence, and last (we’ll give a spoiler warning when it’s time) but Game of Thrones is a fiction fantasy show that’s on that real time real life bull shit. Content warning - discussion of sexual violence as an act of war 52:25 to 58:20 This week’s hot list: Tinder, BLK, bi-sexuality and dating apps, Nathalie Emmanuel and being Black on Game of Thrones, the Princess and the Frog film we didn’t ask for, Universoul Circus, animal rights, ableism, accessibility, BTAC, non-binary, Xena, Afrolatinx erasure, United Nations takes one step forward, Tr*mp takes it two steps back, end money bail, #FreeBlackMamas, National Bail Out, Game of Thrones and how racism finds its way to fiction and fantasy, plus mad other

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Why being a POC storyteller isn’t enough if you’re just trying to prove how white you are; Then a messy ass diasporadical natural hair drama, and finally audio from the dopest panel at SXSW on blaccents and wackccents This week’s hot list: Watch Ramy on Hulu, immigrant narratives on TV, Islam and Muslims on TV, natural hair journey’s and minding your business, 4C gang gang, listen to Lizzo, get comfortable in your space, Black Americans, continental Africans and toxic white influence, a whole ass education on AAVE and language in podcasting, what is a smart voice, recognizing your privilege, 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.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQu

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Dating a racist is not just for white people, HBCU’s are not just for Black people, and we’re in the future where technology is racist and we still can’t teleport. Doom and Gloom! Content Warning: Letter re anti-Black partner is read from minute 22:05 to 24:03 This week’s hot list: Revisiting that ‘what is a Black person’ convo we had a while back (bi-racial edition), How ignorant does your partner have to be before you break up with them? Howard University been around since 1877 but Tom and Karen got dogs that need to poop, spoiler alert - TSA scanners are racially bias, go see Rafiki, watch Beyonce’s Homecoming doc on Netflix if you like nice things. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! EPISODE SPONSOR Purple Panties podcast: https://www.purplepantiespodcast.com WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… how do you navigate anti-Blackness when it’s coming from inside the house? Loving yourself in a world that don’t fvck with you. Also ableism, fertility, and who can joke about that sh*t. This week’s hot list: NYC is crowded as hell, drink your water, do your meditations, Black girl confidence, who can joke about pregnancy and fertility, reproductivity and ableism (the bad isms ruin everything), respect oral traditions and say our names when you quote us, do Black sh!t, tailor your social media for you, therapy is your friend, and more! 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 & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawi

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We indulge in one of our favorite past times, watching TV and tearing it to shreds. Full of mixed feelings about the hit Hulu series ‘Shrill’, we ask does Black body image matter on a show about body image? Is this show low key/high key about white men? Or the 53%? We’re like joking but super serious. This week’s hot list: Watch Shrill on Hulu if you’re feeling froggy, dating, attractiveness & body image, where did Fran get her rompers tho? Black friends & emotional labor, fatphobia is not limited to “straight” folks, white men love camera time and white writers love giving it to them 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/TeawithQueenand

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… It’s our 200th fvcking episode!!! We talk about how we engage with celebrity death on social media, conspiracy theories, editing Black women out of history, fake diversity initiatives, along with our live broadcast at SXSW Content Warning: Nipsey Hussle discussion on death, murder, violence from 17:24 - 1:01:35 This week’s hot list: Nipsey Hussle, white supremacy is not a conspiracy theory, homophobia, when flawed people die, “cancel culture” or “accountability culture”, dealing with death, Claudette Colvin, Boomerang, Harriet Tubman’s disabled erasure, Moment in Black Hair at work, standards of professionalism for white men vs. everybody else, #FreeBlackMama’sDMV, diversity podcast races and more! 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: tw

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Black actors have to worry about more than acting and that’s bullsh*t. Who is killing Black Lives Matter protesters? What the fvck? And Black Muslim erasure in a Muslim ban era. This week’s hot list: We saw Us, help kids in the Bronx enjoy prom, follow @triplecripples, another perspective on gender identity, check out #blackandnonbinary and #nonbinaryisntwhite on twitter, measuring activism by white supremacist standards aint it, Black actors out here doing their own hair and makeup, buy fancy wrapping paper if you got it like that, the Nation of Islam and Black liberation, 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: t

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We explore labels, gender non-binary and why your friends ain’t really your friends; We shout out your Black male homies who unintentionally erase the fvck out of you while you’re fvcking sitting right the fvck there; And we revisit our discussion on disability and dating. This week’s hot list: We kicked SXSW 2019’s ass, working and relationships and disability, J. is full of fun facts, gendered terms (“lady”, etc.), do your friends respect your pronouns? “Inclusivity” at the expense of Black women, does anybody acknowledge the work of Black women as work? 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.tu

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you being ableist in your relationship? Are you so woke you need a nap? Does your man like that you’re bi but only when it’s fun? And why we haven’t watched Leaving Neverland... TW (trigger warning ): Michael Jackson conversation takes place @ 26:15- 40:15 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 teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS AUSTIN, TX #PodinLiveSXSW - Join Tea with Queen and J., Berry of Podcasts In Color, Diamond Stylz of Marsha’s Plate, Estephanie of Bag Ladiez, and Sam of Inner Hoe Uprising for a podcast meetup on Wednesday Mar

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you a white person who wants me to denounce another Black person because you are wilding and always out of pocket? Are you a Black person with a pocket full of Solange hot takes? Are you somewhere scared and hiding until the current president stops presidenting. Whoever you are, wherever you at, we got it covered This week’s hot list: Nuance is not just a word that sounds french, the power dynamics of Tamika Mallory, Louis Farrakhan and the Womens March, Solange is our Black girls delight, that Michael Cohen mess that lead to that racist Mark Meadows mess that Rashida Tlaib tried to pull us out of, who is Monica Roberts? Interpersonal labor, Yolanda Vega a NY legend, Doing something racist vs. being “a racist”, disability rights, Carrie Ann Lucas, health care, and more... Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Qu

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Our moment in Black hair gets unexpectedly emotional, we finally talk about that hate crime scandal that we didn’t never talk about yet, and the relationship between the Black & Latinx community is too nuanced for even that sentence. This week’s hot list: Nobody beats “The Wiz” go watch it! We’re on this week’s Bag Ladiez podcast go listen, Desus and Mero are kind of an inspiration, that Grapevine episode (xenophobia & regional sh*t), “exotic”, Jussie Smollet and the problem with people and the internet, natural hair discrimination law, policy change over hearts and minds, free yoga vids for the people and more... 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/Teaw

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you a sh*tty Black co-worker to your fellow Black co-workers? Why tho? Do you post your lover on social media or are they in witness protection? Also Frederick Douglass was a real one, house parties are supreme, and fvck American grammar. This week’s hot list: We join the #rowlandstones kinda, house parties, seafood, Valentime’s day over Valentine’s day, what kind of hateful ass song is Chante’s got a man? Celebrate the work aunties! Reclaim Black History Month! Mental health breaks, self care, #payblackwomen, use your privilege to help your coworkers, fedex is wack, we miss eggplant fridays, we miss vine, we want teleportation now. 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:

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Blackface is trying to ruin Black History Month, J.Lo is trying to ruin Black History Month, MAGA hats are trying to ruin Black history Month... but there’s still time. This week’s hot list: Black History Month facts, kids in Blackface become adults in power, Kelly Rowland got bands, Kelly Rowland got a man, Kelly Rowland got plans, the Grammy’s, how we know J.Lo still doesn’t have any Black girlfriends, edge control, MAGA hat sightings, how to leverage your privilege against white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, 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.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.c

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re busting myths from “Black on Black” crime to what do vaginas really smell like, Black girl magic at the Superbowl that nobody and everybody watched, and a reminder that you’re important but everybody don’t know you. This week’s hot list: Targeted anti-Black marketing vs. crime stats, Queen makes good grits (salt over sugar!), when and how to engage or not engage in teaching conversations on social media, buy your comics from a Black woman, vaginal health is vaginal wealth, protect Chloe x Halle, fauxcotting the Superbowl (hey Rod & Karen!), don’t be humble (it’s wack) but show humility (it’s cute), Black Enterprise probably fired their journalism staff (but were you even reading it tho?), and other compelling 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 SO

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Don’t use your dad a ‘the friend’ in your “I have a Black friend” story, the politics of confronting men on the street or anywhere and why men be so scared of men who are also scared of them cuz they stay scared, and culture vs. ageism. This week’s hot list: How to survive Gina Rodriguez (but we not really talking about her because ENOUGH), communicating with your partner like a human instead of a wounded rhino, how to say something when you see something #SurvivingRKelly -ish, the “b” in lgbtqia+ stands for bisexual (don’t act like you forgot), Black American cultural dismissal, auntie-ism, whether to say uncle or nah, 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 Facebo

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… One of our favorite shows does an episode on colorism but did they really even wanna talk about it? The politics of what’s “fair”, People who can’t read arguing over books, And will the next generation suck less than we do? This week’s hot list: Black Comic Book Festival & Black Villains Matter, that Twerk video is Black joy, Fyre fest scam, that Black-ish episode and light skinned privilege (again), stop saying fair - words still mean things, redbone vs. brownin', you mad at Marie Kondo or you racist/xenophobic? More partners, better sex, how racist is Gen Z, 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! Black-ish colorist episode recap starts at 21:09 WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.fac

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… how to avoid becoming a human sacrifice in the name of Blackness, what the fvck is womanism, and how to get your Black joy on in the face of white consumption This week’s hot list: Go see Big Freedia, Jason Mamoa is a complete sentence, brown babies for every body! Protect your neck, womanism vs feminism vs Black feminism vs does it matter, what do academics really do, 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 teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS HARLEM, NYC Saturday, January 19th J. will be on a panel at the Black

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re shedding old friendships, setting new affirmations and all kinds of fun shit before an in depth convo about #SurvivingRKelly in real life, the docuseries, why it might not go far enough, and who shouldn’t have been included. Trigger Warning: #SurvivingRKelly conversation including discussions of rape, grooming, assault & other abuses starts at moment 48:36 and ends at 2:02:10 This week’s hot list: Witches & sorcery & Black girl magic, ending patriarchal friendships with pizazz, processing #SurvivingRKelly and reliving old sh!t, being respectable won’t save you, the fast girl myth, complicit adults, communal accountability, sex tape vs. rape tape (words mean things), celebrity victim blamers (why was Charlechew even in that doc?), and then light and fun sh!t, we promise! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Q

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We put our womanist race nerd spin on the Kwanzaa principles (what are thooooooose!) and show you how and why to incorporate that shit into your everyday life, we’ve got a moment in Black hair for the bearded people in your life, and how to build community in a world full of people who don’t know how to act. This week’s hot list: working with toxic whiteness, Kwanzaa, buy black, indie comics, beard butter is good for you, Janice Dotson, the Sandra Bland act, Donors choose, buy them kids ipads, Black elitism, everybody can’t say “sis” sis, and more! 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 teawithqueena