#63 A Spot Of Tea - #ShutDownSmoochr

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Your favorite bi-weekly podcast is going weekly, with the reintroduction of our shorter 'A Spot of Tea' episodes! Drink up! *Trigger Warning: we discuss rape from around moment 8:35 through 13:00* This week's hot list includes: the new Smoochr app, #shutdownsmoochr, college friends, Tinder, the Bae app, Soul Swipe, group sex terminology, colorism, and other shenanigans. Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey https://twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/status/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information on the plan and see where the 2016 presidential candidates and your local politicians stand. Pinkies up to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his new album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and online at www.ohenecornelius.com Pinkies up to T. Flint for our New That's Not New's intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Soundcloud and Stitcher, like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/teawithqj, on Instagram www.instagram.com/teawithqj, on Periscope @teawithqj, tumblr teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com, and email us at teawithqueenandj@gmail.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, your favorite bi-weekly podcast goes weekly in our reintroduction of a spot of tea.
0:08.4	It's Tea with Queen and Jay, people. Drink up.
0:10.4	Tea with Queen and Jay.
0:15.4	Tea with Queen and Jay.
0:19.6	Yeah.
0:20.0	Yeah. Tea and a lot. Yeah. Hey.
0:33.6	Yo, yo, I'm sorry. I had to turn this on because Queen just said, we're talking about college friends.
0:39.7	And I was saying, I don't want to be friends with everyone that I went to school with. And Queen
0:44.3	said, say it again, please. I said, um, in college, I only had about three or four friends anyway
0:50.2	that come into community school. So it was local. And I'm thinking, oh, that's good.
0:54.4	Three friends, cool, you know, you hold on to them forever. No, we graduated and we were not separated. Why do we, like, we didn't, like. I just made your college just like, will you meet friends and shit like that or whatever? I get that for a way school. Like you were away, you have to make these bonds and all of this stuff.
0:52.8	I was right in my city with people.
0:55.0	But you still made friends. I get that for away school. Like you're away, you're having these bonds and all of this stuff.
1:10.8	I was right in my city with people.
1:12.9	Right.
1:13.3	But you still made friends.
1:15.3	The fact that you graduated and y'all went your separate ways.
1:18.7	Like you were in some sort of like blood cult or some shit that disbanded and then you left.
1:25.2	That's hilarious to me.
1:27.1	No, I went to, I went to Vandy, and at the time there was so few black people. Yeah, I get it. It makes sense. When you're, like, away from people, you have your going to form his mom. And, of course, you have friends. So it was like. That is hilarious that you're like, oh, my friends who went away have like college friends
1:44.2	right friends who stay local right it's just funny though because I got I get that which is
1:50.1	why when you said you had three I was like oh that makes sense you were local anyway you
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