Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

The award-winning podcast that centres and celebrates queer Black liveliness.

Society & Culture
1
Foundations of Excellence — Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
23 min
2
Not So Minor Black Figures — Brandon Taylor
55 min
3
Sensuous Knowledge — Minna Salami
58 min
4
Dancing to Freedom — Candice D'Meza
52 min
5
The Paradise of Our Intimacy — Dean Atta
42 min
6
How to Love Yourself — Dean Atta
35 min
7
The Alchemy of Black Joy — Rosel Jackson Stern
52 min
8
All My Poems Are Sad N*gga Poems — Ben Ellis
57 min
9
Our Miraculous Hearts — Phoebe Boswell
A tender meditation on grief, healing and courage with multidisciplinary artist ⁠Phoebe Boswell⁠, who creates portals that return us to ourselves.
55 min
10
Black Duende — Mojisola Adebayo
56 min
11
A Life Worth Writing About — Kuchenga Shenjé
Writer and novelist Kuchenga Shenjé shares how daring women across history shape how she enjoys her life
44 min
12
Rehumanising the Black Meme — Legacy Russell
Curator and writer Legacy Russell on the centrality of Blackness in our understanding of the modern world
53 min
13
A Posture of Improvisation — Maleke Glee
Curator and scholar Maleke Glee on cultural sustainability and preserving the spiritual vitality of Go-go music
51 min
14
Our Stories, Told By Us — Angelina Namiba
Angelina Namiba serves as an empowering possibility model for sustained and effective community engagement to support Black women living with HIV
52 min
15
Sustaining Our Thriving — Dennis Carney
54 min
16
My Word Creates My World — Jean Lloyd
Communications provocateur Jean Lloyd on how we bring compassion and clarity to our communications when our lives on the line
60 min
17
Black to the Future — Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie on The Color Purple, queer Black eroticism and provoking our imaginations.
43 min
18
We Are Rehearsing Freedom
How the Black radical imagination helps shift us out of oppressive landscapes and times, and towards just and dignifying worlds that affirm Black aliveness.
59 min
19
The Magic and Black Genius of Jazz — Julian Jos...
Jazz pianist Julian Joseph on how the art of improvisation animates music and life
48 min
20
Elijah McKinnon – Becoming Undone
Elijah McKinnon on refusing to be bound by other people's labels and ideas, and their entitlement to softness
60 min
21
D Smith – A Provocation for More
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.
26 min
22
Leon Benson – I'm Living Like I Died Before
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
54 min
23
Kenyon Farrow – A Modern Black History Hero
53 min
24
Rikki Beadle-Blair – Yearning into Creation
Rikki Beadle-Blair is a Black national treasure whose persistent optimism is essential to his world-making creativity
29 min
25
Farzana Khan – Extending Ourselves to Each Othe...
Farzana Khan is the tender titan leading the transformative work of Healing Justice London and her practice calls us to an embodied wholeness
44 min