Tea with Queen and J.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Queen is creating space for Black joy and J. is crying during her cosplay wrap up of Black Comic Book Festival. Are white folks whiting at you? We discuss Leah McSweeney and the modern day delusions of whiteness that used to get innocent Black folks killed. Also, Bishop Eddie Long is a dead rap...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! College, how bad it sucked, and why maybe you should go anyway. Or don’t go. Who cares. Also, urban food deserts, white luxuries, and friendships among women. Drink up! This week’s hot list: the MTA, gentrification, Fresh Direct for everybody! feminism, the Golden Globes, Hidden Figures and whi...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We discuss the politics of Black men’s hair, look for safe spaces for Black sexuality, explore casual Black on Black colorism, and are you an asshole if you hate Kwanzaa? This week’s hot list: New Year rituals & traditions, sisterhood in the restroom, cocaine or nah, Haitian Independence Day, i...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! It's our last show of 2016 and instead of counting all the celebrities that died, we're celebrating all the ways that Black women killed it! Drink up! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS Queen is hosting her first "Vision Board and Goal Setting Meet Up!" for Ms. Vixen magazi...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Do Black women have to do everything? And why is dating absolutely terrible? This week’s hot list: Dating while womanist, the “strong Black woman”, learning to treat yo’self, make your kids do it, are women always auditioning? And just what in the absolute fvck. Drink up! Tweet us while you lis...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We’re problematic as fvck when it comes to the disabled community and two of our favorite listeners Mae (@Mae_DayJ) and Tina (@Nice_White_Lady) are here getting us level one woke on the largest minority group in the U.S. Also Queen reviews the new film Hidden Figures with NO SPOILERS WE PROMISE...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Is your child’s school play a tool for white supremacy? Is Santa trash? Maybe. Drink up! This week’s hot list: #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline denied passage!, ableism, activist parents, the thanksgiving myth, the Santa mythology, is Christmas hurting us?, is J. a hater, are Queen’s parents the...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Fidel Castro is dead and everyone with a facebook account is a political scientist, America hates it’s indigenous people, we recap the season finale of Insecure, and we’re not gonna stop saying white supremacy – stop asking. *WARNING INSECURE SPOILERS from moment 32:25 through 57:30* This week’...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Do shame and religion go hand in hand? Also mental health, and the truth about "conscious" rap and women. Drink up! *Trigger Warning* we discuss rape and infanticide for about 10 minutes starting at moment 9:00 Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WEBSITE www. TeaWithQueenAndJ.com S...

With the world’s oldest cheeto preparing to take over The White House we ask – Did racism start on election day? What’s the deal with white women? And what exactly is the deal with white women? Drink up! This week's hot list: Voting, not voting, 3rd parties, Black Lives Matter in the presidential campaign, the wack as Democratic party, the lesser of two evils, criticism over voter choice, what doe...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We reflect on 8 years of Obama Blackness in The White House, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and gentrification. Drink up! This week’s hot list: What kind of Black is Obama Black?, Is your DJ stereotyping the f!ck out of you?, wtf is happening in Dakota and why is it still happening?, another liste...

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 S...

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 wi...

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-Blackne...

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 hurri...

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...

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 vie...

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...

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 s...

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 Ind...

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 nationa...

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 15:2...

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,...

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 NY...

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...