Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

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

Society & Culture
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Father Jarel Robinson-Brown – The Rhythm of Our...
Queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown on grace, forgiveness, desire and Christianity at the end of the world
61 min
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Marc Thompson – I Have a Virus Older Than You
Longtime HIV activist and community organiser, Marc Thompson, shares his experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980's London
17 min
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Dagmawi Woubshet – The Calendar of Loss
A tender and thought-provoking conversation with Dagmawi Woubshet on utilising grief as a political act
59 min
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Prince Shakur – When They Tell You to Be Good
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
50 min
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Nakhane – Do You Well
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
60 min
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Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – The Disordered Co...
Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and Black feminist physicist who challenges to the dominant understanding of physics
61 min
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F*ck / Sunflowers by Inua Ellams
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
3 min
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malakaï sargeant – I Sparkle When I Sleep
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
54 min
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Come Into This
Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the award-winning podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.
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Marquis Bey – A Curator of Prophecies
Marquis Bey on the Black Trans Feminist imagination, enchantment in the quotidian and theorists and poets as prophets
48 min
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Dionne Edwards – Attempting Utopia
Screenwriter and director Dionne Edwards on telling the stories of flawed characters with care and pursuing utopia with the hope we never get there
48 min
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Ahmed Best – Hope Among the Stars
Actor, educator and futurist Ahmed Best on grappling with the magnitude of the universe and harnessing our imaginations for the future(s) we deserve
46 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Zinzi Minott – Ancestral Interference
Zinzi Minott is a dancer, filmmaker and artist exploring ideas of commemoration, abolition and ancestral interference
64 min
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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
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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
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Raven Gill – The Bajan Butterfly
Community organiser and activist Raven Gill on fighting for the rights of trans and non-binary Bajans
55 min
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Robert Jones, Jr. – The Prophets
Author Robert Jones, Jr. discusses his New York Times best-selling debut novel, The Prophets
47 min
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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