#288 Tina Turner Got Wigs

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.8 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 93 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… America’s vaccine rollout is giving structural oppression vibes! With many of America's incarcerated being denied access to the covid vaccine. Also, Black folks valid distrust of the system vs. irresponsible fear-mongering, and Tina Turner is a whole legend, let’s discuss! This week’s hot list: Routines, smoothies and Spring! SlayTV’s new queer web-series ‘For The Boys’ is our jam. Tina Turner’s life as Black woman in entertainment, and the HBO documentary Tina vs. her 1993 biopic ‘What’s Love Got To Do With’, racism and ageism, and how River Deep Mountain High is a bop! COVID-19 vaccines and the prison industrial complex, who deserves to live and who doesn’t. Black ass covid anxiety (TUSKEGEE!), fears, vaccine conspiracies, jokes, an adorable Daniel Kaluuya in an awkward ass SNL sketch. *Content warning: during our conversation about Tina Turner we do reference domestic abuse though we do not detail any incidents of violence* EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Libations: 3:16 Donation Libations: 7:43 Affirmations: 10:19 The Tina documentary: 12:51 Pay Black Women: 45:00 Incarcerated populations and COVID-19 vaccines: 47:25 Vaccine misinformation: 1:05:45 SNL Vaccine joke fail: 1:18:00 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 EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES [email protected] 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_VEVWdvdDDemm Send us snail mail: Tea with Queen and J. P.O. Box 1617 229 East 85th Street New York, NY 10028 NEWS THAT’S NOT NEWS: Covid Outbreaks Devastated Prisons, but State Inmates’ Access to the Vaccine Varies Widely https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/covid-prisoners-vaccine.html High Risk Group Left Out of NY’s Vaccine Rollout https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/nyregion/new-york-vaccine-prisons.html Prison Policy Initiative: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/covid-vaccination-plans/ PAY BLACK WOMEN Help Rashida get the funds to finish her Masters’ program! cash app https://cash.app/$newbianqueenra Paypal PayPal.me/newbianqueen and Venmo @newbianqueen_ra NOTES AND EXTRA TEA Check out For The Boys, web series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90tiuQEGCw&t=3s Check out J. on The Grapevine in a throwback conversation about the covid-19 vaccine starting at 46:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Su50OtYSv0 Google “Vaccine Game Show - SNL” to watch that awkward SNL sketch This week’s closing clip features DMX on Drink Champs podcast https://twitter.com/DanteAbstract/status/1378889850141675520 This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women. Opening song by Ohene Cornelius Segment Music by Chad Milner

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0:00.0	America's vaccine rollout is giving structural oppression vibes.
0:04.5	With COVID-19 vaccine access denied to incarcerated people around the country.
0:09.4	Also, black folks' valid distrust of the system versus irresponsible fear-mongering.
0:14.5	And Tina Turner is a whole legend.
0:16.8	Let's discuss.
0:17.8	It's tea with Queen and Jay.
0:19.0	Drink up.
0:30.3	What up? up well well well well it isn't you again me isn't me or me is in everyone listening? Everyone, everyone listening.
0:38.6	Okay.
0:39.3	You ask you all the time.
0:40.7	Of course it's you again.
0:42.6	Of course it's me again, yeah.
0:44.2	Of course.
0:45.2	How you doing?
0:45.9	I'm good.
0:47.4	I am well.
0:48.3	I took some melatonin last night.
0:50.3	I feel refreshed.
0:51.1	Even though I only got like, what did I get like four hours of sleep.
0:54.9	I still feel refreshed. So that's good. Good. Yeah. I liked it. It's a helpful. It's helpful. Yeah.
1:01.3	It is. I wonder, is it good for me though? Like, is it good for you? I wonder. I think it's just
1:06.2	trickers a hormone you already have. So. Okay. because I didn't do any research.
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