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

South African artist and musician Nakhane on defining love the hard way, staying true to yourself and art as a calling to be taken very seriously

Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and Black feminist physicist who challenges to the dominant understanding of physics

F*ck / Sunflowers is a poem by Inua Ellams within Ellams' triumphant book, The Actual, which is published by and available from Penned in the Margins

Artist, producer and educator malakaï sargeant on dreaming beyond the carceral geographies of our cities, liveliness through land and lineage, and queerness as ancestral gift

Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the award-winning podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.

Marquis Bey on the Black Trans Feminist imagination, enchantment in the quotidian and theorists and poets as prophets

Screenwriter and director Dionne Edwards on telling the stories of flawed characters with care and pursuing utopia with the hope we never get there

Ahmed Best and Dr Lonny Brooks play Afrorithms from the Future with Long Time Academy host Ella Saltmarshe