#75 Diasporic Black Girls (with Zahira Kelly)

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! Fellow Bronx homegirl Zahira Kelly aka @bad_dominicana joins us for an epic chat on how one can be woman, Black and Latinx at the same damn time. Also, the Great Barrier Reef, interracial hysteria, and unhinged Facebook friends. Drink up! This week's hot list: What is Afro-Latinx?, anti-Blackness in Latin America, colorism, passing, womanism vs. feminism, slut vs thot, cranes in the sky, written vs oral storytelling, bean pies, social media trolls, racism in art, racism in science, wait - look out the window... racism!, how to be Black, white gaze, Black women and interracial couples, gate keepers, and a really fun sister circle as Zahira and TK join us on the mic! Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com NOTES & EXTRA TEA Be sure to check out Zahira Kelly on Twitter and Instagram @bad_dominicana Listen to her podcast: https://bumpers.fm/zahira Check out her artwork: https://shopzahirakelly.com/ Pinkies up to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com Visit J.'s favorite renaissance man and partner in costume creation Ronie Reives on instagram @darrkstarr and his alter ego Viki Villainess @ihatevikivillainess 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 twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/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 latest 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 News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, fellow Bronx homegirls Zahira Kelly, aka Bad Domenicana,
0:06.6	joins us for an epic chat on how one can be woman, black, and Latinx at the same damn time.
0:13.4	Also, the Great Barrier Reef, interracial hysteria, and unhinged Facebook friends.
0:19.6	It's Tea with Queen and Jay people.
0:21.3	Drink up.
0:37.2	75. That's like a milestone. What is that a fucking, I don't know. I don't know. That's like a shit, right? It's like a fucking... I don't know anniversary. Try fucking... What's 25 years? I don't know anniversaries. Why are you asking me questions? TK is here. Silver? I don't know. I hardly believe is here Silver I don't know
0:55.1	I hardly believe in marriage
0:56.5	I don't know
0:57.1	Is anybody married ever
0:58.9	For 75 for 75%
1:00.1	People don't even live that long
1:02.5	Like what age did you get married by the
1:05.3	That's such a good question
1:07.4	Right exactly right
1:09.3	When I get married at 47 Yeah we're not going to hit 75 years.
1:13.5	That's like not going to happen, yo.
1:15.9	Hi, everybody.
1:17.9	Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay.
1:19.8	I'm Queen.
1:20.6	I'm Jay.
1:21.5	We're two womanist race nerds talking shit over tea.
1:24.4	And this is Tea with Queen and Jay.
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