#132 Prison Ain't Easy

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.8 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 46 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 “spot of tea” episode… Are your parents allowed to disrespect you? Prisons find new ways to destroy whole communities of people. And we’re done playing with pronouns… This week’s hot list: we finally decide what to do about our pronouns, yt supremacist patriarchal capitalism introduces skyping as a substitute for visitation bc wtf, Rykers island is freezing and we want to help since it’s Rykers and no one gives a sh!t, Affordable Care Act deadline is Friday!!! And how to love your parents without sacrificing yourself for them (sounds bad, but it ain’t, we promise) 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 Be sure to listen to our “We Gotta Have It” review podcast of the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It”! New reviews drop every Wednesday. Check out our review of episodes 1 & 2! https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/we-gotta-have-it-dajumpoff-bootyfull Skype to replace actual prison visitation: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/skype-for-jailed-video-calls-prisons-replace-in-person-visit For some reason Rykers Island is allowed to remain open without proper heat this NY winter. Help keep inmates warm with thermals and other items via this amazon wishlist! https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/15WLMA6HLLIGB/ This week’s closing clip is Wyclef Jean ft. The Rock, Melky & Sedek - It Doesn't Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1f4SVqnbKg Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ 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, are your parents allowed to disrespect you?
0:04.4	Prisons find new ways to destroy whole communities of people, and we're done playing with pronouns.
0:09.8	It's Tea with Queen and Jay, people. Drink up. with tweeter jay oh my god we're back oh your god why oh my god they're not just your god also all right
0:33.7	i'm down to share i don't know i just you. It's enough spirit energy to go around.
0:38.1	That's all good.
0:39.3	How are you?
0:40.1	I'm great.
0:35.5	Good, good, good. I'm also good. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We are two women as race nerds talking shit over a tea. I'm Queen. I'm Jay and this is T with Queen and Jay.
0:37.7	Am!
0:39.6	All right.
1:11.2	All right. All right. I like that. This is Spotted Tea episode. Yes. Spot of Tea episode. We try to make them shorter than the... We have no concept of the time. Whatsoever. Yeah. So we try to make them shorter. Maybe it'll be this episode.
1:12.8	We don't know.
1:13.2	I don't know, but it's less formatting.
1:44.3	Yeah, we generally just have less segments. That's a little more free form. And it allows us to make this show weekly because this show is a lot of fucking work. Yep, yep, yep. If you would like to keep up with this show and get involved in the conversation, you can use the hashtag T with QJ on Twitter. All the social media is. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. We're there. We're checking the hashtag. We're retweeting that shit. We're talking back to you. And people are talking to each other. Right. Which is pretty dope. Great conversation going on there. Yes.
1:45.2	Yeah.
1:45.7	That's very good.
1:47.0	We're recording at Indy Creative Network in their studios, which is fucking exciting.
1:52.9	And be sure to check their website for all kind of cool shit.
1:56.6	They are a website that highlights the voices of people of color.
2:00.7	There's podcast shit on there.
2:02.2	It's pop culture shit on there.
2:03.3	Be sure to check them out at ICN.DJ.
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