#134 This Year Didn't Suck

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.8 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 62 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… We remember all the sh!t that didn’t suck about 2017! We explore our favorite moments in popular Black joy and look forward to more opportunities to challenge white supremacist patriarchal capitalism in 2018. 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 Check out Ijeoma Oluo’s article “The Hear of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, The White Woman Who Identifies As Black” - https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black 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 This week’s closing clip is Jenifer Lewis via Jezebel: https://www.facebook.com/Jezebel/videos/10154837429227434/?hc_ref=ARSuMVzEaNGvEIHYgEg3LYY83eFE5RsHq5JievogtJxqopxuEbKMUXeld6wlATSQ3Cc 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. 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	Hey guys.
0:00.8	Hey, I'm glad.
0:01.8	We're back recording in my apartment.
0:04.2	So if you hear Hennessy, who is my dog for anybody who forgot, walking around, that's
0:09.9	where we are.
0:10.3	That's what's going on.
0:11.5	We had already recorded the episode and we're ready to drop the podcast when we got the news
0:16.8	that Combat Jack had passed away.
0:19.6	So we wanted to just kind of get on and send love to everybody that he was close to.
0:23.9	He meant a lot to a lot of people.
0:26.1	He meant a lot to us as podcasters, as black people, as people in media.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.9	He made sure to give voices to people that mainstream media would never think to give a space or a platform. And that means a lot, you know?
0:46.1	It does. He created a whole lane. That's kind of like the foundation of what we do. You know what I mean? I mean, there was podcasting,
0:55.4	but what he did with his platform
0:58.6	and expanding the platform to other folks,
1:01.0	it just paved the way for what we know as, like, podcasting today.
1:06.7	You know what I'm saying?
1:07.5	Absolutely.
1:08.8	There would be no read without Combat Jack.
1:11.2	That was his brainchild.
1:12.2	There would be no fan bro show.
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