A tender meditation on grief, healing and courage with multidisciplinary artist ⁠Phoebe Boswell⁠, who creates portals that return us to ourselves.

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