Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

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

Society & Culture
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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
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Mikael Owunna – I Have Magic to Work
Multimedia artist and engineer Mikael Owunna on Blackness as divine cosmic principle and transforming our collective consciousness
51 min
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Rahim Thawer – Sexuality and the Imprint of Shame
Psychotherapist and social worker Rahim Thawer on dismantling shame and nurturing innovative queer relationships
53 min
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Emily Aboud – Splintered
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
61 min
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Paula Boggs – Ebony Revisited
Musician, songwriter and lawyer Paula Boggs on the West African roots of Bluegrass and creating music amid a collective crisis
62 min
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Mojisola Adebayo – The Beautiful in the Brutal
Playwright and theatre maker Mojisola Adebayo on reanimating the life and story of Henrietta Lacks, seeking pleasure and challenging whiteness
61 min
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Pádraig Ó Tuama – Feed the Beast
Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on the erotic intelligence of our bodies and poems from his latest collection, Feed the Beast
37 min
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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 – 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