#93 The Bronx Is Burning

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 102 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… Do you give a sh!t about your single friends? Like do you really give a sh!t? Also, J. gives Queen a lesson in “how to work with white folks”; environmental warfare in the Bronx; and turn off your TV, it’s stressing you out. This week’s hot list: are Black bodies unloveable?, who takes care of single people, Queen is navigating Black hair at work, stop feeding into Tr*mp’s media madness, last week we were all immigrants, now “We are all American’s” because white liberals are mad annoying. 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 DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj EVENTS Join us Saturday, March 11th at 4:00 for #PodinLiveNYC: Black Podcast Meet-up we’re hanging out with 10 of our favorite Black podcasts in NYC and their listeners at Von for an afternoon kick it session. RSVP now  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/podinlivenyc-black-podcast-meet-up-tickets-32135312585 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to our guest spot on Three Fifs Podcast here: http://threefifspodcast.com/2017/02/18/an-extra-fif-tea-with-queen-and-j/ “Romantic Love is Killing Us: Who Takes Care of Us When We Are Single?” by Caleb Luna https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/romantic-love-is-killing-us/ “Environmental Racism and Health Disparities in the South Bronx” by Leah Kozak https://sojo.net/articles/environmental-racism-and-health-disparities-south-bronx Visit http://www.msvixenmag.com/ and sign up for newsletter updates on Queen’s book club! Check out this month’s tea sponsor Plum Deluxe Tea! Organic loose leaf tea blends, made just for you: http://www.plumdeluxe.com/teashop This week’s closing clip “Big Momma Thang” by Lil Kim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRfpk311NU Libations 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 Libations 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 Libations 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, do you give a shit about your single friends?
0:05.4	Like, do you really give a shit?
0:07.6	Also, Jay gives Queen a lesson in how to work with white folks, environmental warfare in the Bronx, and turn off your TV.
0:15.6	It's stressing you out.
0:17.2	It's Tea with Queen and J people Drink up I Sorry I had to do it
0:34.2	Sorry I had to do it again
0:35.4	That fucking hurt
0:36.3	Did it?
0:37.1	Yes
0:37.2	Your mic turn down Because I might want to do that again. Like right now. Be da poopi-du-pah. You turn it down? Fucking bitch. Sorry. What's up, yo? What's up, people? Hi, everybody. How are you? How are you, Jay? How am I? I'm having weird, creepy feelings today. Let's tell them where they're at today. Huh? What? Oh, hi guys. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We're two women. We're two women race nerds talking shit over tea. I'm Queen. I'm Jay and this is tea with queen and jay yeah did that hurt your air
1:14.0	there it is not really i know you're trying to hurt me that's not what i'm a spiteful bitch i can't be
1:19.6	hurt today okay i'm penetrable today hmm that's not sound fun it's not fun that's how I feel there's a blockage I want to be
1:31.4	penetrable badly desperately I desperately want to be penetrable um if you guys want to follow along
1:38.4	with this conversation you can use the hashtag on Twitter hashtag T with QJ uh you can use it on
1:43.8	Twitter you can use it anywhere we check the hashtag we retweet shit with QJ. You can use it on Twitter. You can use it anywhere. We check
1:45.0	the hashtag. We retweet shit. We talk to people. And we really enjoy those conversations. Sometimes
1:50.1	people check us on Twitter. Sometimes people give us more articles and information.
1:54.2	Sometimes we check you back. Sometimes we check you back.
1:57.8	Sometimes we do. It's a conversation. It's a conversation. Yeah. So feel free to join us. Hashtag T with QJ. Yeah, yo. Yeah, what kind of tea are you drinking today? Oh, my God. I'm drinking Plum Deluxe tea again. And I'm having the strawberry kind, which I forgot what it was called. I think it's gratitude tea because I really needed some of that. It's gratitude black tea.
2:18.1	There we go.
2:18.8	Thank you for that.
2:20.4	Yes.
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