#155 Let People Enjoy Things

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture and over tea. Drink up! On this episode… White people try to police us off the face of the earth, rapist cops are running rampant on Rikers, and is it so hard to let Black people enjoy things? Black people, we’re talking to you This week’s hot list: Black joy killers, contrarian ass ni**as, Dear White People, policing as a tool of gentrification, cultural celebrations, quarantining Black life, the royal wedding, life is hard - enjoy things, mental health & free counseling, incarceration & sexual assault, how not to interview a Black feminist/womanist and mad other sh!t Segments: Tea Talk 17:45 - 43:15 #PayBlackWomen 43:15 - 46:15 News That’s Not News (Trigger warning for rape) 46:15 -54:45 The Pit 54:45-1:08:55 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS NYC Join us for our Juneteenth Afterwork Kickback on Tuesday, June 19th from 6-10pm at Von, 3 Bleeker, NYC! Celebrate Black ass freedom with us! FREE.99 with RSVP: https://juneteenth-afterwork-kickback.eventbrite.com PAY BLACK WOMEN Learn more about @CuntryCouselor’s effort to provide free therapy to Black women in the DC area: https://twitter.com/cuntrycounselor/status/984601093853339648?s=21 Contribute to @CuntryCounselor’s paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MagnoliaMentalHealth NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to our Dear White People review podcast series “Dear Black People”: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/sets/dear-black-people BROOKLYN Learn more about the Dance Africa street bazaar: https://www.bam.org/bazaar Buy tickets to the official Dance Africa performance: https://www.bam.org/dance/2018/danceafrica Queen is running a 5K! Support her journey and fundraising efforts for Kids Creative at www.crowdrise.com/naimalewis Revisit our episode #83 on ableism and the intersections of disability: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/83-all-these-hashtags-with-mae-tina Learn more about The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods/548837/ This week’s closing clip features Malcolm X Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. 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 on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ohenecornelius/ Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/