From romance & tenderness to skincare routines-- this is definitely a special one. Warm up your cuppas and let me know you're sipping as you listen to this episode. I hope you enjoy part 1 of 2 with filmmaker, writer, actor & model Justice Jamal Jones.

In the episode we discuss:

• Thoughts on gender and sexuality today?
• The performance of sex and sexuality.
• Discussing upcoming projects and looking into themes surrounding blackness, queerness and criminalisation.
• Exploring and researching kink for black and brown people.
• How do you deal with the by-standards of sexuality and gender?
• Where does the passion for Black Tender experience in their projects stem from and how they stylistically have come to be where they are at in their artistic practice for what they what they want to make and project to the audience.
• Viability of an Art indie projects vs  one of commercial/ mainstream.
• Hidden gems of “How To Raise A Black Boy” that no one knows or has seen.
• Breaking down two passages of “How to raise a Black Boy”.
• The process of creating a film (ref: Calvin Klien x Dazed Pearls in Spotlight,  MTV's My Black Alchemy)
• The challenges and joys of creating projects.

Social: Myself: https://www.instagram.com/chaiwithrai_/ Guest: https://www.instagram.com/justicejamaljones/

Links: Myself: https://linktr.ee/chaiwithrai_

Guest: https://collab.sundance.org/people/Justice-Jamal-Jones-1614723424

Hope you all enjoyed it and Thank you for tuning in.

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