Tea with Queen and J.

On this episode… People are returning to work! As the country re-opens, what does it mean for Black people to return to the office? Working remote was cute, but could working in person mean anti-Blackness and antagonism up close? Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop culture over tea. Drink up! This week’s hot list: Happy pride to our queer sibs and nibs! Doj...

On this episode… Yo, what the fvck is Juneteenth! We talk about what federal recognition means for a traditionally Black holiday, who should celebrate and who shouldn’t, and the OG Opal Lee! Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop culture over tea. Drink up! This week’s hot list: Beach trips, new projects, and a lil‘ sunburn. Libating listeners cause ya’ll the...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Washington Heights is Black as fvck, and somehow the film In The Heights is not. Black Latinx folks stay getting erased! We talk about how that erasure affects all Black people, why it’s important for white folks of all ethnicities to acknowledge their whiteness, and how to avo...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Black people got hobbies! But should every hobby turn into income? Do we even really know what a hobby is? If you don’t make a living wage, should you have a hobby? Are we for real about to explore hobbies this whole episode? Yep! This week’s hot list: A poppin, health summer,...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Knotless braids, kinky twists, lace fronts, and crochet styles. We’re talking about Black hair trends and how we got here. Also, can we leave Black women in sports the fvck alone!? Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, and other Black women in sports mind their business and resist the stat...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Do you kiss your dog in the mouth? Is your cat sitting on the counter while you cook? We’re talking about Black people and pets! Sh!t we do, s!it we don’t do, history on Black animal lovers and more. This week’s hot list: fresh flowers all up and through the crib, CGI that pett...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this unusual episode of Tea with Queen and J. we celebrate the life of a friend Reparations conversation starts at 21:20 Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj or use #teawithqj and add #podin on Twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! If you’d like to support Nikeeta’s...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Racism in the classroom. Do you gotta address racism every fvcking time you see it? Joseline Hernandez drags Wendy Williams and her bootstrap feminism. And more about fibroids, and more about gender! This week’s hot list: demisexual round table, colorism, nerdism, Wendy William...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Big ass fibroids! Mad Black people have fibroids and not enough of us are talking about it. I talk about my experience with fibroid surgery, and reproductive health challenges. Then we tear the good cops bad apples theory to shreds. And we put on our square toed shoes and drag...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Accountability! What does accountability look like in day time television? The Talk is back on the air after a racist episode and they might for real be doing something different. Also, the passing of rap legend DMX, and how Black liberation means different things to different...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… America’s vaccine rollout is giving structural oppression vibes! With many of America's incarcerated being denied access to the covid vaccine. Also, Black folks valid distrust of the system vs. irresponsible fear-mongering, and Tina Turner is a whole legend, let’s discuss! This...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Black activists like Tamika Mallory have been accused of commercializing the movement. We break down the accusations, and thoughts on what is and isn’t Black liberation. Also, Lil Nas X pushes the gay agenda, we love to see it. And Sharon lost her whole job over a white man Thi...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… It’s a panniversary! One year after the first shutdown in the US we’re still living in a global pandemic and it may be affecting you more than you know. Then, the anti-Black obsession with how low-income folks spend their stimmy. Supporting the Asian community in a time of cris...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Explaining racism to white people proves to be a thankless fvcking job as Piers Morgan and Sharon Osborne show their whole asses on live TV. Are Black activists commodifying Black death for clout? Samaria Rice reacts to Tamika Mallory at the Grammy’s. And finally, biracial iden...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Colorism, COLORISM, colourism - that’s what we’re on today. Between a white-passing Meghan Markle being shunned by the royal family to Lovecraft Country putting a whole light-skinned Black person in blackface, we gotta talk about colorism. . . again. This week’s hot list: Lil Na...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Quarantino got us feeling DIFFERENT about what we watch on film and television. We get Buried By the Bernard and discuss the diasporadical implications of Judas and the Black Messiah. And Queen Latifah is doing some sh!t we never seen done before. No spoilers, we promise! This...

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 a...

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 t...

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! Thi...

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 ho...

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...

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, n...

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 disman...

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 bo...

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 - Birthda...