#114 Reclaiming My Time

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.8 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… How to be Black and talk about light skinned privilege, when white folks wanna host the cookout, and the cisgender straight imagining of a transgender boogie man. This week’s hot list: Looking for an apt in NY is abuse, Amber Rose wanders out of her lane, CURLFEST, yt folks and Black holidays: a how-to, J.’s dad is wildin on facebook, Have you had sex with Usher in the past 10 years? Natural hair care products and anti-Black packaging, The Breakfast Club uses trans women for laughs but also THEY’VE BEEN TRASH Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL [email protected] DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Learn more about Southern University’s digital archive of slave narratives: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/article_996926ae-579c-11e7-9d36-13d23afca32d.html Learn more about the International African American Museum Center for Family History: http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/07/20/intl-african-american-museums-new-genealogy-research-center-will-help-black-people-trace-their-roots/ This week’s closing clip is features First Nations organizer Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail at a press conference regarding indigenous rights & liberation in Canada. Watch the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG73ww5o4A Read more about what Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail and other organizers are working toward here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG73ww5o4A Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio studios! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com for more dope programming. Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay,
0:02.4	How to Be Black and talk about light skin privilege,
0:05.3	when white folks want to host the cookout,
0:07.5	and the cisgender straight imagining of a transgender boogeyman.
0:11.6	It's Tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up.
0:13.8	Sweetie J.
0:15.4	Tea with Queen of J.
0:17.8	Tea with Queen of J.
0:34.2	All right. Yeah. On me up. of j welcome back welcome back welcome back welcome back we're saying we were we were i knew your song but i couldn't i didn't have anything to give or to offer. So I just said that. I was trying to keep it up, town. Sorry. You brought it to Broadway and shit. I wasn't thinking Broadway. Anyway, welcome back. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We are two women is race nerds talking shit over tea. I'm Queen. I'm Jay and this is Tea with Queen and Jay. I'm excited. I feel like I don't know how to do this anymore. Oh, all right. I'm excited. I feel like you do know how to do it. But you're being weird. That's okay. Yeah. For any of our... There's a microphone in my face. Oh my gosh. For any of our new listeners, this is our first episode after being on a two-week break. We haven't even been gone that long. Feels like forever to me. You're funny. Your sense of time is like... Yeah, my time is really really warped yeah it's really
1:29.3	really really warped oh this one by so fast it did go by fast but for some reason um you don't remember
1:35.5	anything you remember that we used to record in this studio at that i remembered okay okay
1:39.6	okay do you know tk is on the boards remember tk okayK. I remember TK. Okay. Um, yeah, it'll come back.
1:46.2	All right. Like riding a bike. Okay. Or a dick. That's fine. Never forget that. Um, if you want to
1:53.8	follow the conversation of this podcast, use the hashtag T with QJ, T-EA with QJ on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all the socials, wherever you're at.
2:05.4	We are there.
2:06.4	We are listening.
2:07.7	And other folks can chime in.
2:10.1	Well, if I'm reading, oh, my God, you're so technical.
2:14.9	I don't miss that shit.
2:18.5	Be sure to use that hashtag, yo.
2:21.0	What kind of tea are you drinking?
2:22.4	I am not drinking tea.
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