#235 A Whole White Husband

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode…Fuck is happening in Iran and what does it have to do with Black Americans? If you’re not in Black love can you critique Black love, and when’s the last time a white person touched your hair. We know they’re not supposed to, but what do you do when they do it anyway, like in real life This week’s hotlist - The Yt House is wilding, Kevin Hart docuseries on Netflix, leveraging Black feminism against Black women in the name of twitter, how we want to react to microaggressions vs how we actually react, negotiating dating and womanist politics, when not to center Black American oppression, who owns homophobia, shadow war, Black muslim erasure by other Black peole and mad other sh*t. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com SPONSOR “Layla’s Happiness” children’s book Written by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin Learn more about the book: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/20/laylas-happiness-mariahadessa-ekere-tallie/ Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Laylas-Happiness-Mariahdessa-Ekere-Tallie/dp/1592702880 Buy at Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/laylas-happiness-mariahdessa-ekere-tallie/1130419130#/ Buy at Target: https://www.target.com/p/layla-s-happiness-by-mariahadessa-ekere-tallie-hardcover/-/A-77038768 EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj Queen’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CXV9ZDWZ3PP9?ref_=wl_share J.’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NP09USMPJ0TB?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_ip_VEVWdvdDDemm0 PAY BLACK WOMEN Help June support herself through college! Cashapp: $JuniperNie https://cash.app/$JuniperNie NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to Ms.Vixen podcast “New Year, Who This”: https://soundcloud.com/user-570908584/75-new-year-who-this-122919-752-pmoutput U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/qassem-soleimani-iraq-iran-attack.html This week’s closing clip features comedian Katt Williams talking about the way the US media dehumanizes victims of US military imperialism: https://twitter.com/so_treu/status/1213133626092802048?s=21 This episode was created, hosted and produced by Naima & Janicia with editorial support from Sam Riddell Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women. Libations to Diamond Stylz for our What We’re Watching intro! Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, keep up with him at https://ohenecornelius.com 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's episode of Tea with Queen and J podcast is sponsored by the book, Laila's Happiness.
0:09.5	A children's book by author Mariah Hadessa, Akeri Talley, illustrated by Ashley Corinne.
0:15.7	Layla's Happiness is the book Talley couldn't find to share with her first two daughters when they were young.
0:20.5	She found many wonderful books, some with brown skin children, but not a single one about a brown skin
0:25.6	child who was just growing up as so many children do, active, daydreaming, well-loved, and happy.
0:31.2	She wanted to write about a child emotionally nourished enough to be trying out her wings
0:35.4	on currents of lightness, air, and happiness.
0:38.6	A sweet and lively portrait of a contemporary city kid, Layla's happiness invites all readers
0:43.5	into the story to identify, grow familiar, and consider what happiness is for themselves.
0:49.3	Layla shares her feelings, wanting to listen, to hear back from all the other children
0:53.6	reading her story, and to open a to hear back from all the other children reading her story,
0:54.6	and to open a conversation about happiness itself, what it feels like, when you know it,
1:00.3	and what it is to say it.
1:02.0	Pick up Layla's happiness on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble's and other places that children's books
1:07.2	are sold and explore what happiness means to you.
1:11.9	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay.
1:14.5	Fuck is happening in Iran and what does it have to do with black Americans?
1:19.0	If you're not in black love, can you critique black love?
1:22.7	And when's the last time a white person touched your hair?
1:26.2	We know they're not supposed to, but what do you do
1:28.6	when they do it anyway because they always fucking do? Like in real life, like what do you do? Like, for
1:34.4	real. It's tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up. We're doing it.
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