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Tea with Queen and J.

#155 Let People Enjoy Things

Tea with Queen and J.

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 73 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… White people try to police us off the face of the earth, rapist cops are running rampant on Rikers, and is it so hard to let Black people enjoy things? Black people, we’re talking to you This week’s hot list: Black joy killers, contrarian ass ni**as, Dear White People, policing as a tool of gentrification, cultural celebrations, quarantining Black life, the royal wedding, life is hard - enjoy things, mental health & free counseling, incarceration & sexual assault, how not to interview a Black feminist/womanist and mad other sh!t Segments: Tea Talk 17:45 - 43:15 #PayBlackWomen 43:15 - 46:15 News That’s Not News (Trigger warning for rape) 46:15 -54:45 The Pit 54:45-1:08:55 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 EVENTS NYC Join us for our Juneteenth Afterwork Kickback on Tuesday, June 19th from 6-10pm at Von, 3 Bleeker, NYC! Celebrate Black ass freedom with us! FREE.99 with RSVP: https://juneteenth-afterwork-kickback.eventbrite.com PAY BLACK WOMEN Learn more about @CuntryCouselor’s effort to provide free therapy to Black women in the DC area: https://twitter.com/cuntrycounselor/status/984601093853339648?s=21 Contribute to @CuntryCounselor’s paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MagnoliaMentalHealth NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to our Dear White People review podcast series “Dear Black People”: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/sets/dear-black-people BROOKLYN Learn more about the Dance Africa street bazaar: https://www.bam.org/bazaar Buy tickets to the official Dance Africa performance: https://www.bam.org/dance/2018/danceafrica Queen is running a 5K! Support her journey ahttps://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/kids-creative-15-and-running/naimalewis Revisit our episode #83 on ableism and the intersections of disability: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/83-all-these-hashtags-with-mae-tina Learn more about The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods/548837/ This week’s closing clip features Malcolm X 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, white people try to police us off the face of the earth.

0:04.9

Rapids cops are running rampant on Rikers, and is it so hard to let black people enjoy things?

0:10.1

Black people, we're talking to you.

0:12.1

It's Tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up. tweet of j nine it's the t with tweeter j i know

0:23.8

5, 6, 7, 8, 9

0:29.7

It's the 10 crack commandment

0:31.7

I had a dance to this

0:34.0

You did?

0:35.2

What grade?

0:35.6

And doing high, eighth grade.

0:36.9

B.

0:54.3

Was it fun? It was good? Yeah, we used the intro part. Like one, two, three, four. We had, um, actually, sorry, wrong song. It was another biggie song. It was who the fuck is this? Okay. That's all right. And we had like, fake beat pagers and we were like, who the fuck is this?

0:51.8

I'm like looking at it annoying. That was cool. Wrong song, but it was worth the story. I enjoyed that story. Then it broke into a Foxy Brown song. I'll be good. Yo, everybody did. Every high school dance to that. Every high school dance today. I was in junior high. Oh, excuse us. Early. And I wore an outfit that I had to sneak out and I didn't tell my parents about the show

0:53.7

and they came and I was in junior high. Oh, excuse us. Early, early. And I wore an outfit that I had to sneak out and I didn't tell my parents about the show and they came. And I was like, shit. I was supposed to be wearing this. I only did a sneak out once and it was a Barbie bracelet that I decided I was going to make an earring. I was like, this spot should be an earring, but I'm not allowed to wear earrings'm unnecessarily Christian. You ready? Yes. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We are two womenist race nerds

1:33.7

talking shit over tea. Dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time.

1:40.6

I'm Queen. I'm Jay and this is tea with Queen and Jay.

1:40.6

Ew. That was delicious. That was really tasting. It was. I was. I was. I was. I was. How are you? I'm great. Good. Good, good, good. How are you? I am good. I have gained mad weight this year. I'll be good. Hey, look at you. Look at you.

1:41.3

Full circle.

1:42.9

I gained Mad weight this year.

1:43.6

I did.

2:20.7

As it as. I have gained mad weight this year. I'll be good. Hey, look at you. Look at you. Full circle. I gained mad weight this year. I did. As did. I was actually looking at one of our old, like, team with Queen and Jay pictures. I was like, wow. We were small. We were very tiny. Yep. We were smiling. That's that woman weight. That's that woman weight. but anyway so i'm dealing with that it actually it wouldn't be so bad if i had clothing that fit so i'm dedicating um some of this time and some of

2:28.3

my uh tax return money to purchase and clothes that fit and then after i actually feel good about what i'm wearing because

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