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 Will Smith a whole cry baby? We dissect that warm and fuzzy Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air reunion, but also... is he a whole cry baby? Then, the worst voice over you heard in your entire life, and what YOU can do about the Georgia Senate runoffs This week’s hotlist - Half & Half i...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Grown ass women on film, our homegirl Lacresha Berry joins us as we review the Netflix film 40 year old version, talk about the politics of being grown with no kids (there are politics, we promise!) Black New York, sex and mad other sh!t. This week’s hotlist - Afro’s and Audio...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Joe Biden was voted president but more importantly Tr*mp and his stank booty were fired. We talk about what that even means in a white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal society, Black joy at a time like this and mad other sh!t. This week’s hotlist - The election is over and...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Has the apocalypse begun?.... Maybe. We get into voter suppression at the polls, how to stop a whole ass governmental coup, and a window into that segment of wealthy Black folks that vote that pockets over their people This week’s hotlist - Black girls in costume, managing elect...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…We been in covid-19 quarantino for 8 whole months! How are we doing and how are ya’ll doing? Then what do you do when your job wants to be cheap about racial bias training? And... is privilege fvcking up your friendships? This week’s hotlist - wellness checkin for that ass, bein...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…‘Sis - auntie - girl - mama - We get into the politics of Black labels and who can call who what. Then, the Black celebrities trying to sabotage the election, and ‘tu siempre negrita del Bronx’ reminds us that Black girl erasure is the same in English and Spanish. This week’s ho...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…white people call each other out and it don’t have sh*t to do with us, you love to see it! Also the impact of messaging in audio vs visual media, colorism as a global phenomenon, working while Black AND FREE! (can you do both?) And checking your straight privilege while dating....

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Should we still use the term white supremacy or is it overdone, over used, and affirming all the wrong things? Also, what we’re watching, including Black queer narratives in our collective Black history, and catering to white fragility on the timeline This week’s hotlist - Sex,...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’re reviewing the HBO series “I May Destroy You”. This is a spoiler full episode so if you care about spoilers, go watch the series and come back to us! Content warning, this series explores themes of rape and sexual assault and we will be discussing those themes of rape and...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is it our fault that a whole new lipless white woman lied about being Black for 10 years? Probably not but we’re talking about identity again, cuz shit is getting super weird. This week’s hotlist - Quick housekeeping about who we center in our work. Talk to us nice dammit. Hug...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… You’re a Black feminist but you got a whole misogynoirist at the crib drinking up all the juice in the house. How the fvck did that happen? Then Black American, African-American, or Black, how are we defining ourselves and does it even matter in the 2020’s??? This week’s hotlis...

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 Thi...

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...

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 crea...

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...

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 hotlis...

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 B...

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 - Bla...

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...

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,...

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 t...

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, alli...

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 Giova...

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 fr...

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 ab...