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Cast It Out

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close Jade and Keia welcome,  big sister to the show, Daria Ross, to share her personal journey through breast cancer. Daria also shares useful information and advice to encourage and empower us all to be proactive about our health & healthcare.



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Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCO | Surgery

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In Charge of Our Bodies (feat. Daria Ross)

Jade and Keia share space and time with Angel G,  HBCU alum, entrepreneur, educator, creator, and curator of The Spice Suite. Join us for a conversation about purpose, service, building community, and embracing ease!

This special bonus episode of Gettin’ Grown is presented commercial-free thanks to Target. Target is partnering with HBCU’s to support the next generation of Black talent.

“I Don’t Do Anything I Don’t Want to Do” (Feat. Angel G.)

A bonus episode of #TheFriendZone in partnership with Target. We discussed the best emerging artists at AfroPunk over the years. Favs we were excited to experience in person. Top hair, makeup and fashion moments. Our meet + greets. Most memorable experiences overall. And we curate our dream AfroPunk cities, lineups and stage sets.

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On this episode… The girls are grieving! We talk about navigating death, grief and loss and everything that comes with it. Then in honor of spooky season we revisit blackface for the holidays, whether or not J. was a coon in 2017, why ni**as give Queen heebee jeebees and how working at a cool job while Black can still be wack.

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

This week’s hot list: It’s on sight for death! Funerals and shit people say at funerals, high value memories, Halloween and spooky season tings, a bad blackface take, learning in public, an Aaliyah tribute, colorism in language, Black on Black hair crime, and working at a “cool” company while Black 


EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
Libations for our ancestors: 5:24
Donation Libations: 20:06
Affirmations: 24:54
How we living: 26:16
Colorism in costuming & language: 57:16
A bad blackface take: 1:00:32
Moment in Black Hair touching: 17:01
Get away from my desk: 1:27:28



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This week’s closing clip features Gillie Da King and Wallo https://twitter.com/longlivepele/status/1436406372787277825?s=21 


This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones and social media support from Jo Caraballo

Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women.

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius

Segment Music by Chad Milner

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#301 Death Is A Whole Bitch

This episode is about nothing and everything. We're cleaning out the fridge. Join Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for a proverbial smorgasbord of conversation. 


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Stealing Keke Palmer

On this episode…Can breaking up with your therapist be therapeutic? Is Jada Pinkett Smith being too honest about marriage? Are yall tired of talking about Jada Pinkett Smith yet? And making friends as an adult...Can you build community in an era of no new friends?

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

This week’s hot list: New therapist energy, getting paid, those Jada and Will relationship goals you have, have been shattered, now what? Friendship, marriage, building community pre & post covid vibes, work friend politics, and mad other ish 


EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
Mental health & wealth out this bitch: 3:54
Donation Libations: 12:36
Affirmations: 16:14
Jada Pinkett Smith, marriage, misogynoir & media: 17:21
Making new friendship, building new community: 43:00



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This week’s closing clip features Moschini Dorito- Heterophobic Mobsters https://www.tiktok.com/@moschinodorito/video/7023785346269760774?

This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones, social media & production support from Channél Jordan, and graphic design by Jo Caraballo

Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women.

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius

Segment Music by Chad Milner

#302 Will Smith Is Not Sacred

This week’s episode of #TheFriendZone is brought to you by Target. 

We discuss our college experiences; the pressures of standardized testing, college advisors, the application process and college visits. We share the factors that contributed to our final decisions - finances, parents, distance, etc. How it felt adjusting during the first semester. Living with roommates. Working odd jobs to make ends meet. Early morning classes. Managing your social life and grades. And trying to juggle your old life with your newfound life as a college kid.

Alma Mater - A Bonus Episode Sponsored By Target

On this episode… Revenge of the Black nerds! Were you othered for being queer or Black or nerdy, or all of that sh!t? Then, why labels may or may not be important to you and if any of that has to do with your privilege

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

This week’s hot list: Sex toys, daylight savings or takings, Queens (the TV show), velvet, anti-Blackness and othering at the intersections of nerdiness & queerness, demisexuality, Cardi cosplay, labels, belonging, who gets to claim queer, who needs to claim queer, who cares and mad other ish


EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
Libations: 4:57 
Donation Libations: 17:08
Affirmations: 20:18 
Anti-Blackness and Black nerds: 22:37
Who claims queerness, who gets to say: 55:33 



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This week’s closing clip features Sylvia Scott featured on Advanced Style Official https://www.tiktok.com/@advancedstyleofficial/video/7027107364427795718

This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones, social media & production support from Channél Jordan, and graphic design by Jo Caraballo

Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women.

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius

Segment Music by Chad Milner

Subscribe!

#303 It's Giving Anti-Black

On this episode… It’s how to get away with murder. The internet shares their disappointment about the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal. Should we feel a public sadness? What impact does the killing of white protesters have on allyship? And on a much needed lighter note, fun nerd sh!t and a game changing moment in Black hair

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

This week’s hot list: Use your PTO, Anime NYC, nerd judgement, Stranger Things, birthdays, Kyle Rittenhouse, white supremacy and the internets reaction, anti-protest laws, synthetic hair’s life cycle and mad other ish 

EPISODE TIMESTAMPS
Libations: 3:15 
Donation Libations: 14:14
Affirmations: 15:58
Kyle Rittenhouse timeline of events: 18:29
Acquittal and internet reaction: 26:29
A moment in (synthetic) Black hair: 1:12:01 


We wanna seasons greet you with a post card for the new year! (for reals this time) We promise it'll be cute and not an entire waste of paper. Send your address here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhaXUgyYrT_r46FpFwpYkYTUenXGZGJVgrZ0U-jjJTbQ_orQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 


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J. mentions the idea of “lone wolf” terrorism in this ep, but we have a more in depth discussion about domestic terrorism on episode #278 Issa Coup. Conversation starts around minute 18:41 https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/278-issa-coup 


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MOMENT IN BLACK HAIR
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Plant based braiding hair by Rebundle: https://rebundle.co/ 

This week’s closing clip features Gayle King Interviewing Jonathon Majors, for the movie ”The Harder They Fall” https://www.instagram.com/tv/CV_g2NJgb-y/?utm_medium=share_sheet 


This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones, social media & production support from Channél Jordan, and graphic design by Jo Caraballo

Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women.

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius

Segment Music by Chad Milner

#305 How To Get Away With Murder

On this episode…Season 2 of the series “Love Life” just wrapped on HBO. It’s got us pondering Black Love ™ versus the swirl; covid and the great white awakening of 2020; and Black masculinity, monogamy, love, and sex

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

This week’s hot list: Shout out to boundaries, and good family time. J. investigates how a really white show turned into an example of representation behind the camera, Black male characters and the “good guy” trope in film and IRL, When Black love ™ gets silly, interracial dating, marriage, divorce, threesomes, code switching and do people even use condoms anymore? 

Content warning with timestamps ahead. There is a miscarriage in episode 6 of the series. We discuss this from 1:36:50-1:38:30

Libations: 3:16
Donation Libations: 9:00
Affirmations: 12:32
What is Love Life: 16:58
The “good guy” trope IRL: 36:51
Interracial marriage: 45:00
Black parents gonna Black parent: 1:00:51
Black Love ™: 1:08:38
A threesome: 1:21:49
Ya’ll Mofos Don’t Use Condoms: 1:25:34
Marcus had that breakup coming: 1:38:30
Kian’s down with O.P.P.: 1:47:35
Love, Covid & White Folks Wildin: 1:55:12
Issa Relationship: 2:01:39




We wanna seasons greet you with a post card for the new year! (for reals this time) We promise it'll be cute and not an entire waste of paper. Send your address here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhaXUgyYrT_r46FpFwpYkYTUenXGZGJVgrZ0U-jjJTbQ_orQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 


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J.’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NP09USMPJ0TB?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_ip_VEVWdvdDDemm 


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229 East 85th Street
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This week’s closing clip features the recent ancestor Virgil Abloh https://www.instagram.com/tv/CW2uNUlFqgK/?utm_medium=copy_link 

This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis with editorial support from Candice Jones, social media & production support from Channél Jordan, and graphic design by Jo Caraballo

Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women.

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius

Segment Music by Chad Milner

#306 Love Life

Queen and J. are two funny womanist race nerds from the Bronx talking liberation, politics and pop culture over tea! Dismantling systems of domination one episode at a time.