#153 #MuteRKelly (with Kenyette Barnes)

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 48 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… R. Kelly has BEEN a rapist. Why are we talking about it now? Special guest Kenyette Barnes joins us to discuss #MuteRKelly, the movement to divest from all things R.Kelly and reinvest in protecting Black women and girls. This week’s hot list: #muterkelly, organizing, activism, to-do lists, misogynoir, sexual violence, divestment, lynching metaphors and history, general ashiness, the #metoo movement, #timesup and learning to #listentoBlackwomen Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA Thank you Kenyette Barnes for taking time to speak with us. Learn more about #MuteRKelly: www.muterkelly.org Instagram @officialmuterkelly Twitter @offmuterkelly Facebook Mute R. Kelly Petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/270/975/290/ This week’s closing clip features journalist Toure interviewing R. Kelly: https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/887122191111917568?lang=en 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 on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ohenecornelius/ Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, R. Kelly has been a motherfucking rapist.
0:04.6	Why are we talking about it this week?
0:06.1	We have special guest Kenyette Barnes to discuss hashtag mute R. Kelly.
0:10.8	The movement on divesting from all things R. Kelly, he does not need your motherfucking money.
0:16.2	Give it to a black woman somewhere.
0:17.8	This is tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up.
0:19.8	Queen of Jay. Tea with Queen of Jay. Tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up. Are you ready?
0:35.7	Yes.
0:36.5	All right.
0:37.0	How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm All right. How are you?
0:37.7	I'm good.
0:38.2	How are you doing?
0:39.1	I'm doing okay.
0:40.2	I actually feel good. That's good. I usually feel depressed after the weekend is over and I feel unaccomplished, but I feel good. You're usually good when we record on Mondays. When we record on Sundays, it's when you do that. that's true but I feel like even if we recorded on a Sunday I think I will be good
0:37.5	okay I feel good that's true, but I feel like even if we record it on a Sunday, I think I will be good.
0:55.5	Okay.
0:56.0	I feel good. That's good. That's good. I like to hear that. You ready to do the thing? Let's tell them where they are. Okay. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We are two womenless race nerds talking shit over tea. I'm Queen. I'm Jay. And this is T with Queen and Jay.
0:52.5	And...
0:52.7	Am!
0:53.7	All right.
0:54.7	Yeah.
0:55.6	Bye-pah. T. I'm Queen. I'm Jay. And this is Tea with Queen and Jay.
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