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… Are you Black enough, are you dark enough and is that the same thing? White passing in Hollywood and who gets to claim Black or brown and does white supremacy have anything to do with it. Then demonizing Black children and infantilizing white adults, and are you throwing a part...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We rarely talk about interracial relationships because so what, but we’ve got a whole ass Black woman married to a whole ass white man and things get racist at her house, so here we go. We also give a quick New York Comic Con (NYCC) recap and one of our favorite cosplayers give...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is your life sh!t on a stick right now? We assure you it gets better and offer tools for getting over the hump. Then we reflect on Kanye’s survival, the Black Women’s March, and how white Latinx folks be wilding on the daily, on the reg and all the time. This week’s hot list: B...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! This is Part 2 of our review of the Netflix film “Nappily Ever After”! We discuss community, how Black women support and take care of one another, natural hair journeys, desirability, the Black girl magic era and if any of that sh!t existed in this film that takes place in nobody knows when. We...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… We review the Netflix film adaptation of the book “Nappily Ever After” and we ask… Why??? We split this review into two parts. Please enjoy part one and let us know what you think! Follow our guest, Ola & The Free Black Woman’s Library! Facebook: https://www.faceboo...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Are Black British actors “taking” Black American roles or is white supremacy just doing what it do? Black trans women are being killed left and right and the media is acting like it’s their fault. And we knew Janet Jackson was blacklisted but do you know the white man’s name wh...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… The greatest athlete of all time makes us wonder if being a Black woman at work sucks for all of us or just most of us, Elvin stopped us from job shaming so we’ve moved on to goal shaming, and Insecure got interesting again, but then it got weird and possibly sizeis...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Does white supremacist patriarchal capitalism make you feel good about yourself? Do you affirm your existence by comparing yourself to others? Are you a dumb bitch? Find out on the next Dragon Ball Z. This week’s hot list: We’re gonna say Calvin repeatedly, but we promise we me...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… How to get white sh!t by doing Black sh!t. Also success ain’t white, so ignore that first sentence but you get what I’m trying to say. Black bodies, Black spaces, and safe space are several phrases that we’ll during our Afropunk recap but we promise it’s important!...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Is it important to have a Black section? and fvck does that mean? Then we remember Aretha Franklin, and get into some diasporadical foolishness, misunderstandings, voter suppression, and ghosting. This week’s hot list: Safe Black brunch, Queen’s going to SXSW (maybe), What is A...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… We find self-care in some new and innovative Black ass television, while exploring the naive white protagonist who gets to be racist for fun. Also step moms who need their ass beat and how to trust yourself. This week’s hot list: Nikki Giovanni, Random Acts Of Flyne...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Child support and the family structure, who owes what, who does what and who shouldn’t have shit to say about it. Also, new rules for Black hair in the military, and how ‘I don’t see color’ is an act of violence This week’s hot list: Sorry To Bother You, light skinned mediocrit...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… We frequently celebrate ourselves our Blackness and our flyness on this show but how do we navigate whiteness? We hung out with hundreds of white people last week and it was scary as hell. This week we give tips for staying moisturized in the midst of white supremac...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… We present our #ListenToBlackWomen: Podcasting as Black Oral Tradition panel at #YurhouseSXSW. We had the opportunity to gather several other amazing Black women in podcasting to discuss our voices, our audience, and existence in media. Panelists Brooke Devard of “T...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Your fave is a rapist and he said it but woke Black women still fuck with him. Also Black women using their voices in media for good, and is the white man’s news helping to gentrify your neighborhood???? This week’s hot list: Nerd moisture tips, code switching, mental health, c...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… How to self-care yourself without getting got! Doing something racist vs being "a racist" (is there a difference and does it really fvcking matter) and we’re Black and we’re cute and we want your loot. Also: Black Femme healing, safe-space, anti-Blackness, interracial relations...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… What do you do when problematic (like really problematic) people die? Have you had it with Black people who don’t like being Black? We’re over them too, but we have a message for you. And our final topic, don’t be a wanksta. This week’s hot list: Capitalism, podcast hustle, wor...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… In the 1970’s Sweetback’s Badass song, Shaft, and then Superfly were considered the start of the Blaxploitation genre, and almost 50 years later with a new Superfly, a whole new Shaft on the way, and others in the works, do we still need Blaxploitation? Should we su...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Our friend and trans activist Diamond Stylz talks to us about uniting cis & trans women against the patriarchy, subverting the system with sex work, dating from the same pool of poop, and mad other sh!t This week’s hot list: sex work, Nicki Minaj tried it, Sarah Baartman, Insta...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… we ask all the questions… Should Harriet Tubman’s face be on money? Have you ever met a Black archeologist? Is now a good time for your suicide advise? This week’s hot list: Kim Kardashian talks to her little friend and bails a Black woman out of prison, new Kenyan...

Welcome to Queen & J.’s “Dear Black People” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of season two of the Netflix series “Dear White People” This week we do our final spoiler full review of the series “Dear White People” volume 2, episodes 9 and 10! If you’d like to listen to this episode in two parts, we begin reviewing episode/chapter 10 at moment 53:40. Tweet us while you l...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… REPARATIONS! Everybody and they mama’s been throwing that word around, does it means something, does it mean nothing? What does it mean, when can we use it, and why? This week’s hot list: Group chat etiquette, staying active vs. losing weight, what the heck are reparations, are...

Welcome to Queen & J.’s “Dear Black People” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of season two of the Netflix series “Dear White People” This week we do a spoiler full review of “Dear White People” volume 2, episodes 7 and 8! We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing and the episodes prior, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time fo...

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture and over tea. Drink up! On this spot of tea episode… Are everybody’s coworkers wild racist or just mine? Living alone or safe space roomates - do either of those things exist in NYC? And how do you date when men are trash This week’s hot list: Black graduates and Black ass degrees, Janet Jackson is still the first...

Welcome to Queen & J.’s “Dear Black People” podcast! We’re two womanist race nerds reviewing the fvck out of season two of the Netflix series “Dear White People” This week we do a spoiler full review of “Dear White People” volume 2, episodes 5 and 6! We will only include spoilers for the episodes that we are discussing and the episodes prior, so if you’re not a binge watcher, there’s still time fo...