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… Is Jay-Z’s 4:44 a comedy album? Popsugar does “natural hair” for whites only. And why America keeps trying to turn the rapes of women like Sally Hemings into forbidden romance. Wtf? This week’s hot list: Blerd City Con, Blue Ivy puts everything in shaka, Queen goes to Afro-Lati...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Did growing up in a white town turn you into a pod person? What to expect from yt folks when they’re not being wack, and respecting varied approaches to injustice. This week’s hot list: In what world can yt folks celebrate Juneteenth?, #BlerDCon & Black joy, Are bras the real e...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is the LGBTQ+ community another whites only club? Can you be queer as f!ck and Black as f!ck? Also Black women, wigs and appropriation. This week’s hot list: What’s up with the new Pride flag? QTPOC and protest movements, Migos in “Blouses vs. Shirts”, can Black women appropria...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Ashy Twitter attacks a Black cosplayer in a fight to the yt supremacist finish, the art of challenging each other vs. trashing each other, and do we trust the system or not? Bill Cosby trial included… which is it? This week’s hot list: Happy Juneteenth! Tariq Nasheed is calling...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We relive the Black joy that is Marvel’s Black Panther trailer, racism & apartment sharing, and Katy Perry’s woke white feminist tour This week’s hot list: #BlackPantherSoLit, Why won’t Katy P leave us alone? The new home sharing app Muzbnb, are you the only Black person in you...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Why Bill Maher was never invited to the cookout, that Scandal monologue & Black women out of context, and nice yt folks, are you raising little yt supremicists or nah? This week’s hot list: J. recaps #GovBall2017, Bill Maher been wack, mosh pits, the swagger jacking of Dapper D...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Comedian Monique does stand-up in her church clothes but she’s got us thinking about how white supremacy defines success. And gentrification continues to suck but the man has been gutting the hood of resources since forever. This week’s hot list: What does it mean when Black fo...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We explore the gendering of fashion and why the romper fiasco was a great time to delete facebook friends. Safe space and when Black folks bring yt supremacy to the party; why college kinda sucked and mad other sh!t. This week’s hot list: Juneteenth approaches! #AmpedBrunch was...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Happy Mother’s Day! We don’t have kids. We no-spoilers review Master of None and how it went from an ode to white women to an actually funny show. Also parodies of Black power and the tokenism of Black women. This week’s hot list: We’re not your moms, we Netflix binge Master of...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’ll show you how to effectively pop off at work, how to ruin your friends Republican wedding, how white folks use Black kids to get grown, and men are trash. I said it. Chu gone do? This week’s hot list: Hana Montana hates Black women, wtf is “the hip hop scene”? We take the...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is racism keeping us awake at night? Will corporations keep using social justice to sell us piss water? And Henrietta Lacks & Black mistrust of a racist healthcare system. This week’s hot list: Oprah gives us the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on HBO and we discuss white supr...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… DMX is everybody’s loveable drunk uncle, a Black hair company takes an open air shit on Black women, and stop asking for hugs. This week’s hot list: #BSAMFuturismo in the Bronx (like a Black-ass Bronx Comic Con bih!), J. works through imposter syndrome, Shea Moisture is wilding...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Light-skinned Black folks are not white; Surprise! Slavery ended for Black women too and we must be paid. And for the last time (but probably not), white folks do not get cookies for not being racist. This week’s hot list: We get a letter from a white Muslim and Queen has an "a...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We record our 100th episode LIVE and ask do your favorite Black people hate Black people? Is Pepsi the official beverage of the klan? And should white folks profit from Black Lives Matter? The answer to that is obviously NO. This week’s hot list: What is a gutter snipe and when...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Maybe it’s Mabelline, maybe is a microagression. Also Riker’s is closing and we don’t trust that sh!t, and why we will never, ever be humble. This week’s hot list: What does it mean that Riker’s Island is closing?, the Atlanta bridge collapse and capitalisms property over peopl...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We try to calculate how many rape jokes are ok before… yeah, they’re not ok. And the difference between a missing girl and a runaway… um, they’re the same. Also mental health and the fvcked up sh!t people say to little girls. Drink up! This week’s hot list: Cosplay again, morni...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We discuss dating and the fvckboi celebrities that tell women how to do it. Also, in our News That’s Not News segment - the criminalization of Black girls in the sex trade. And finally why white feminists need to keep our names out they mouth. This week’s hot list: Tyrese, Stev...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We give a full recap of #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up, then discuss toxic femininity and take a brief break from yelling at white women to collect some of our trans Black cousins. This week’s hot list: #PodinLiveNYC, what’s up with transphobic feminists, where do we fit...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Somehow George Bush is America’s new favorite white man, A gay cartoon kiss sends bad parents into a twitter frenzy, and stop blaming Black folks for eeeeeeverything. It’s tired. This week’s hot list: will the real George Bush please stand up, stop talking about Rachel Dolezal...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking politics, pop-culture and liberation over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We love Jordan Peele’s new movie Get Out, but what was the racial motivation behind Keanu? Also, fvck Jimmy Kimmel, Remy Ma Shether’s Nikki, and is it ever too soon for sex? This week’s hot list: #TrapKaraoke, the new film Get Out, Key & Peele: Black joy or nah?, the Oscars shen...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Do you give a sh!t about your single friends? Like do you really give a sh!t? Also, J. gives Queen a lesson in “how to work with white folks”; environmental warfare in the Bronx; and turn off your TV, it’s stressing you out. This week’s hot list: are Black bodies unloveable?, w...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Michael Jackson was a genius with a pet monkey, but is Beyoncé doing too much? Also Black fat, Black health and white supremacy. This week’s hot list: The biggest star in the world is a Black woman – can she live tho?, Beyonce vs. Solange: Why Tho?, Quinta B.’s new webseries “U...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is every single Black woman a hot fvcking mess? Or is that just TV magic? Also, America’s obsession with abortion and why Black pregnancy announcements are none of your freaking business. This week’s hot list: stop playing and give Black women your money, we give love to Berry...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Queen is off mic for the first 8 minutes because we’re ridiculous. We discuss why New Edition is the glue holding many of us together; Queen shares her experiences as a Black Muslim erased in America; and J. asks is it you or is it gas lighting? This week’s hot list: New Editio...

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” Ma...