Busy Being Black

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

Society & Culture
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Afrorithms from the Future
Ahmed Best and Dr Lonny Brooks play Afrorithms from the Future with Long Time Academy host Ella Saltmarshe
12 min
27
Episode 100 – The Dancing Boy
To honour Busy Being Black's 100th episode, artist and musician DYLEMA interviews Busy Being Black's creator and host, Josh Rivers
54 min
28
Rico Norwood – A Quare Gaze
Rico Norwood on the enduring importance of Looking for Langston, cultural memory-making and remediating access to our cultural archives
44 min
29
Travis Alabanza – None of the Above
In this live recording of Busy Being Black at Shoreditch House, Travis Alabanza explores their new book, None of the Above
49 min
30
Jafari S. Allen – There's a Disco Ball Between Us
A conversation with one of my intellectual idols, Jafari S. Allen, about his new book and Black gay habits of mind
68 min
31
Da'Shaun L. Harrison – An Invitation to Pleasure
In this bonus episode, Da'Shaun and I explore the erotic and how we might engage a world-ending intimacy.
34 min
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Da'Shaun L. Harrison – Belly of the Beast
Abolitionist and theorist Da'Shaun Harrison on the connection between anti-fatness and anti-Blackness, diet culture as a tool of social control and thinking beyond abolition.
57 min
33
Zinzi Minott – Ancestral Interference
Zinzi Minott is a dancer, filmmaker and artist exploring ideas of commemoration, abolition and ancestral interference
64 min
34
Shrouk El-Attar – The Dancing Queer
Shrouk El-Attar is an engineer, performer artist and activist for refugee rights in the UK and for LGBTQ rights in her native Egypt.
50 min
35
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley – Knowing Where to Dig
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is the creator of Black Trans Archive, a game designer, archivist and artist
58 min
36
Raven Gill – The Bajan Butterfly
Community organiser and activist Raven Gill on fighting for the rights of trans and non-binary Bajans
55 min
37
Robert Jones, Jr. reads "New Covenant" from The...
Author Robert Jones, Jr. reads an excerpt from his New York Times best-selling debut novel, The Prophets
11 min
38
Robert Jones, Jr. – The Prophets
Author Robert Jones, Jr. discusses his New York Times best-selling debut novel, The Prophets
47 min
39
Edafe Okporo – My Brother's Keeper
Activist and author Edafe Okporo on the reality of the so-called American Dream, the importance of Black pleasure and his refusal to participate in the spectacle of Black death
57 min
40
Frank Mugisha and Lady Phyll – Live at Black Te...
Lady Phyll and Frank Mugisha on utilising social media to fight for LGBTQ human rights, at Black Tech Fest 2021
27 min
41
Tobi Ajala and Yasmina Kone – Live at Black Tec...
Tobi Ajala and Yasmina Kone on how technology can be harnessed to empower marginalised communities
46 min
42
Langston Kahn – The World Needs You
Langston Kahn is a queer Black teacher and shamanic practitioner who specialises in radical human transformation.
50 min
43
Koritha Mitchell – Living Out Loud
Koritha Mitchell is an academic and author who expands upon how Black women continually redefine success and citizenship in America
54 min
44
Dr Francesca Sobande – The Digital Lives of Bla...
Dr Sobande is an author and academic exploring the myriad ways Black women in Britain thrive, influence and are erased as they navigate social media platforms.
57 min
45
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu – The Muscle of Our Imagin...
Playwright, actor and director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu on creating work that stretches the imagination and a limitless Black Britishness
51 min
46
Lazarus Lynch – The Return
A conversation with Lazarus Lynch, the multi-hyphenate artist and chef behind Busy Being Black's theme music.
51 min
47
Territorial – The Calling of the Spirits
An exclusive preview of Territorial's new album, TLAXIHUIQUI, which translates to "the calling of the spirits" in the Uto-Aztecan language of Nahuatl.
23 min
48
Ted Brown – Live at UK Black Pride 2021
A conversation with Ted Brown, one of our most important and formidable elders
46 min
49
Shiloh Coke – Recognition
Shiloh Coke on coming into herself as a queer Black woman and how music offers her space for safety, joy and love.
45 min
50
Written on the Waves – A Conversation Across Sp...
How do we honour the forgotten, whose work was once celebrated, and who gets to decide which work stands the test of time?
9 min