#237 Clout Chasing Grandma

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 67 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… Why work doesn’t have to suck but people and their politics make it suck so hard, how to make friends as a grown ass adult, and to HBCU or to PWI - grandma edition This week’s hotlist - animal ovaries, pet love, labor, therapy, Black Facts, labor and the hierarchy of workers, friendship, dating yt men, picking a college, dance class, awkward Black girls, how to be Black in America, impressing the elders 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Check out https://openpathcollective.org to find a therapist that you can afford This week’s closing clip features singer/musician Nina Simone talking about the importance of “pushing” Black identity: https://twitter.com/mikellestreet/status/1221630834807050240?s=11 This episode was created, hosted and produced by Naima & Janicia with engineering 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

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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.
0:31.3	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. Pick up Layla's happiness on Amazon, at Barnes & Nobles,
1:05.5	and other places that children books are sold, and explore what happiness means to you.
1:12.1	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, why work doesn't have to suck, but people in their
1:17.2	politics make it suck so hard, how to make friends as a grown-ass adult, and to
1:22.5	HBCU or P-W-I, Grandma Edition. It's tea with Queen and J, people.
1:28.4	Drink up.
1:44.8	Rolling, rolling on a river, rolling, rolling, rolling on a river. Rolling Rolling
1:46.0	Rolling on a river
1:48.3	I'm protesting and I sing in I can parts
1:51.1	Oh
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