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

Musician, songwriter and lawyer Paula Boggs on the West African roots of Bluegrass and creating music amid a collective crisis

Playwright and theatre maker Mojisola Adebayo on reanimating the life and story of Henrietta Lacks, seeking pleasure and challenging whiteness

Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on the erotic intelligence of our bodies and poems from his latest collection, Feed the Beast

Queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown on grace, forgiveness, desire and Christianity at the end of the world

Longtime HIV activist and community organiser, Marc Thompson, shares his experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980's London

A tender and thought-provoking conversation with Dagmawi Woubshet on utilising grief as a political act

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

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

Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and Black feminist physicist who challenges to the dominant understanding of physics

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

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

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

Marquis Bey on the Black Trans Feminist imagination, enchantment in the quotidian and theorists and poets as prophets

Screenwriter and director Dionne Edwards on telling the stories of flawed characters with care and pursuing utopia with the hope we never get there

Ahmed Best and Dr Lonny Brooks play Afrorithms from the Future with Long Time Academy host Ella Saltmarshe

Actor, educator and futurist Ahmed Best on grappling with the magnitude of the universe and harnessing our imaginations for the future(s) we deserve

To honour Busy Being Black's 100th episode, artist and musician DYLEMA interviews Busy Being Black's creator and host, Josh Rivers

Rico Norwood on the enduring importance of Looking for Langston, cultural memory-making and remediating access to our cultural archives

In this live recording of Busy Being Black at Shoreditch House, Travis Alabanza explores their new book, None of the Above

A conversation with one of my intellectual idols, Jafari S. Allen, about his new book and Black gay habits of mind

In this bonus episode, Da'Shaun and I explore the erotic and how we might engage a world-ending intimacy.

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.

Zinzi Minott is a dancer, filmmaker and artist exploring ideas of commemoration, abolition and ancestral interference

Shrouk El-Attar is an engineer, performer artist and activist for refugee rights in the UK and for LGBTQ rights in her native Egypt.