Tea with Queen and J.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… Michael Jackson was a genius with a pet monkey, but is Beyoncé doing too much? Also Black fat, Black health and white supremacy. This week’s hot list: The biggest star in the world is a Black woman – can she live tho?, Beyonce vs. Solange: Why Tho?, Quinta B.’s new webseries “Up For Adoption”, the Countable app, did Adele “I have Black friends” us or nah?, Black body image/health/femininity and white supremacy – a love story. 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 NOTES & EXTRA TEA Watch Quinta Brunson’s new webseries “Up For Adoption” here: https://www.go90.com/profiles/va_130a15303de7402897f8af4cc564fb46 Contact your reps, influence congress and vote on bills with the Countable app: https://www.countable.us/ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Body Shaming Black Female Athletes Is Not Just About Race: http://time.com/3964758/body-shaming-black-female-athletes/ BMI: Is the Scale Broken for Black Women?: http://blackdoctor.org/451648/bmi-and-african-american-women__trashed/2/ 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 features Little Richard at the 1988 Grammy’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-qRSsmg10 Libations to @Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to check out www.Bondfireradio.com for more dope programming. 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