Writer and novelist Kuchenga Shenjé shares how daring women across history shape how she enjoys her life

Curator and writer Legacy Russell on the centrality of Blackness in our understanding of the modern world

Curator and scholar Maleke Glee on cultural sustainability and preserving the spiritual vitality of Go-go music

Angelina Namiba serves as an empowering possibility model for sustained and effective community engagement to support Black women living with HIV

Communications provocateur Jean Lloyd on how we bring compassion and clarity to our communications when our lives on the line

Irenosen Okojie on The Color Purple, queer Black eroticism and provoking our imaginations.

How the Black radical imagination helps shift us out of oppressive landscapes and times, and towards just and dignifying worlds that affirm Black aliveness.

Jazz pianist Julian Joseph on how the art of improvisation animates music and life

Elijah McKinnon on refusing to be bound by other people's labels and ideas, and their entitlement to softness

Kokomo City is an unapologetic and cutting analysis of Black culture and society at large that vibrates with energy, sex and hard-earned wisdom – and tenderness, intimacy and humour.

The metaphysics of time, space and justice with Leon Benson, a lyricist and educator who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit

Rikki Beadle-Blair is a Black national treasure whose persistent optimism is essential to his world-making creativity

Farzana Khan is the tender titan leading the transformative work of Healing Justice London and her practice calls us to an embodied wholeness

Multimedia artist and engineer Mikael Owunna on Blackness as divine cosmic principle and transforming our collective consciousness

Psychotherapist and social worker Rahim Thawer on dismantling shame and nurturing innovative queer relationships

Theatre and film director Emily Aboud on the intersections and similarities of art and science and telling the stories of queer women with joy and laughter

Musician, songwriter and lawyer Paula Boggs on the West African roots of Bluegrass and creating music amid a collective crisis

Playwright and theatre maker Mojisola Adebayo on reanimating the life and story of Henrietta Lacks, seeking pleasure and challenging whiteness

Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on the erotic intelligence of our bodies and poems from his latest collection, Feed the Beast

Queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown on grace, forgiveness, desire and Christianity at the end of the world

Longtime HIV activist and community organiser, Marc Thompson, shares his experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980's London

A tender and thought-provoking conversation with Dagmawi Woubshet on utilising grief as a political act

Author and journalist Prince Shakur on what writing his memoir taught him about telling the truth, cultivating courage and the similarities between writing a book and falling in love