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 watch light skinned Raising Dion, the Supreme Court is out here repressing reproductive rights, we shift our attention to the oppressor instead of blaming the oppressed, and lastly move the fvck out of New York, nobody asked you to come here. This week’s hotlist - #Indigenou...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is your job fucking with your mental health? If so, we got tips. Also dating guys who love white women, why you’re fucking perfect, Black girls and science and mad other sh!t This week’s hotlist - New York Comic Con (NYCC), Black girl cosplay, tattoos & piercings, a little STEM...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Can you be a non-Black person of color and embody Black culture or is it modern day Blackface? Also Hustlers, cop killers, and Remy’s not from the Bronx no more. This week’s hotlist - Lily Singh and Vanity Fair (fvckin yikes), Awkwafina, Blackness as dominant culture, Hustlers,...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Does everybody like you? If you are engaged in resistance and everybody likes you, you probably possibly perhaps ain’t doin it right. Also porn, honesty, and friendship! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Your cis boyfriend loves trans women and its fine relax, scary money confessions, all the sh!t we’re watching, texturism and natural hair language and do you aggins got jobs? This week's hot list: Styling Hollywood gets all Black & communal and we're here for it, WuTang is for...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What’s the most racist weather? Do you have a community hub and do you use it? What exactly is a womanist race nerd? And of course navigating Black entrepreneurship and white supremacy Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others dis...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is real life feeding social media, or is social media feeding real life? We get into Afropunk, safe spaces & accountability, back to school misogynoir and at the very end before the credits we get into chicken sandwich gate (you know we had to do it!). Tweet us while you listen...

Welcome to Queen & J.’s “Dear Black People” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of season three of the Netflix series “Dear White People” We reviewed this season in two spoiler full episodes. This is Part II of our season three review, so make sure you've listened to Part I before getting started --> https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/dear-black-people-dear-white...

Welcome to Queen & J.’s “Dear Black People” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of season three of the Netflix series “Dear White People” We review this season in two spoiler full episodes, but you don’t have to wait a full week for part II because it's in your feed now! In this episode: character actors vs. actor actors and the great Denzel debate, Afro-latinx identity o...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! This week's episode title was inspired by the hashtag #maybehedoesnthityou created by socio-cultural critic & friend to the show Zahira Kelly aka @bad_dominicana On this episode… Can you repurpose hate speech? Do mehn deserve the Nobel Peace Prize Peabody EGOT Source Award grant fellowship as a...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you engaged in performative protest? Does your breath smell like you used to hate yourself and other Black people? Are you the feds? This week’s hot list: Hobbs & Shaw, hire Black women, pronouns, wealthy white parents and college scamming, performative protest ass muhfucka...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… You probably haven’t googled the word nuance in a while, so go do that sh!t and come back… welcome back. Are you a twitter misogynist who capitalizes off of Black women and looks like a toe? Are you a Black feminist who calls out everybody but her Black man friends? This week’s...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Do you have a problem with Black girl voices? When is a work of art patronizing of its subject and when is it supportive of a marginalized group? We drag your faves and talk about chicken This week’s hot list: For All Nerds, go see The Farewell, @hillmangradmentorship, work hac...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Women, sex, hip hop and the men who cry about it. This week’s hot list: Blerd City Con, intergenerational ideas, Retreat yourself with QueerWOC podcast, rap & sex, Jermaine Dupri is a gold digger, Megan THEE Stallion, and mad other ish. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @te...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What the fvck is demisexuality and is it queer or what? Then, how to recover from getting played at work, give Miss Major her coins, and are you woke for pay or do you really #listentoBlackwomen? This week’s hot list: Go see that Toni morrison doc (The Pieces I Am), academia vs...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Intergenerational auntie shit (yes, we’re re-visiting the re-visit of auntie-ism), body size awareness, and that white lady that keeps harassing you. This week’s hot list: centering mature women in the great auntie debate of 2019, regional Black sh!t, Juneteenth for errybody, h...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…We get into some mental health check-ins and then we uncover, dismantle and disrobe that whole Auntie fiasco and the cultural significance of who and what is an Auntie in the colonized world. Either way we’re telling Harriet Tubman on everybody. This week’s hot list: coworkers a...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… A spoiler FULL review of the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It! The “good”, the “bad”, the “random” and the “important”. Do we gotta have it or nah? This week’s hot list: We just wanna know "why?" Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to he...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you using progressive language while doing regressive sh!t? One of our faves addresses sexual assault allegations in a questionable way on a questionable platform and we question all that shit and more. This week’s hot list: Ms. Vixen podcast, #ItsAboveMe, Jason Mitchell pl...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We’ve got live conversations with a variety of Black podcasters at #PodinLiveNYC podcast meetup! But first - libations, affirmations and general Black joy! This week’s hot list: TV stuff! Go watch It’s Bruno on Netflix, we’ve come to a decision on She’s Gotta Have It, how to pr...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are you in the sunken place? Are you your own tether? We talk about how to regain your authentic Black voice after code switching. Also can you be Black, from uptown, listen to Killa Cam and be anti-fur? How to mind your business during Ramadan, then #payBlackwomen, and support...

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...

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 fict...

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 narrativ...

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 l...