#236 That's Business Tho

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 87 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… Ivy Park and the business of exclusion, a Black hair journey to baldness, homelessness in a city full of empty homes (make that make sense), and bisexuality and why the straight monogs must be stopped. This week’s hotlist - Ivy Park & adidas, plus sizes, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Black Comic Book Festival, natural hair, alopecia and Black women, gentrification and Oakland’s “housing crisis”, homelessness, bisexuality, capitalism and the business of marginalization, Hurricane Maria, Loiza, Puerto Rico, polyamory, non-monogamy, the myth of ownership in relationships and more! 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 Learn more about Taller Salud’s initiative to support women in Loiza & other areas of Puerto Rico Taller Salud en español: https://www.tallersalud.com Taller Salud in English: https://www.english.tallersalud.com Donate: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-us-empower-women-to-make-loiza-thrive/ NOTES & EXTRA TEA Watch #StrongFemaleLeads panel from Black Comic Book Festival moderated by J. with special guests Dr. Eve L. Ewing, Dhonielle Clayton #WeNeedDiverseBooks, Shauna J. Grant, Vita Ayala and Greg Burnham: https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/8963852/videos/200852115?fbclid=IwAR2zGBGWc56MLq0WePx8g8HBDmUyW65ouZGMZJGD_uyF_FYVcY2p4N--ZQI Learn more about Moms 4 Housing: https://moms4housing.org Learn more about the battle for Oakland and excessive police force against peaceful protest in the “housing crisis”: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/01/moms-4-housing-oakland-housing-crisis-arrests-alameda-county-police-riot-gear/ Watch Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley discuss her experience with alopecia: https://theglowup.theroot.com/exclusive-rep-ayanna-pressley-reveals-beautiful-bald-1841039847 Ayanna Pressley: US congresswoman reveals alopecia diagnosis: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51148851 This week’s closing clip features Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #MLKNow conversation with Ta’Nehisi Coates: https://twitter.com/pairolleth/status/1219413110852743168 This episode was created, hosted and produced by Naima & Janicia with engineering & 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 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.
0:06.0	A children's book by author Mariah Hadessa Akeri Talley, illustrated by Ashley Corinne.
0:12.3	Layla's Happiness is the book Talley couldn't find to share with her first two daughters when they were young.
0:17.1	She found many wonderful books, some with brown skin children, but not a single one about a brown skin child who was just growing up as so many children do, active, daydreaming, well-loved, and happy.
0:27.9	She wanted to write about a child emotionally nourished enough to be trying out her wings on currents of lightness, air, and happiness.
0:35.1	A sweet and lively portrait of a contemporary city kid,
0:38.3	Layla's happiness invites all readers into the story to identify,
0:42.3	grow familiar, and consider what happiness is for themselves.
0:45.8	Layla shares her feelings, wanting to listen,
0:48.5	to hear back from all the other children reading her story,
0:51.4	and to open a conversation about happiness itself,
0:55.5	what it feels like, when you know it it and what it is to say it. Pick up Layla's happiness on Amazon at Barnes and Nobles
1:02.0	and other places that children books are sold and explore what happiness means to you.
1:08.5	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, Ivy Park and the business of exclusion, a black hair journey to baldness, homelessness in a city full of empty homes, make that make sense, and bisexuality and why the straight menogs must be stopped.
1:24.4	It's Tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up.
1:26.7	Queen of Jay people. Drink up.
1:44.2	Oh my God. We're recording. I know. In like a whole studio. Yes, we are in, what is this, Whig, Crucifix Studios. Yes, we are. We are. Cheers to Sam. Yes. We're allowing us to record here. Yep. Thank you, Samuel. We needed it. Thank you. We needed it. You did. How you doing? I'm good. How are you doing, Jerry?
2:01.0	I'm good.
2:01.5	It's sunny in this studio.
2:02.9	It's sunny.
2:03.3	I like that.
2:04.1	I am ovulating.
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