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.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is the creator of Black Trans Archive, a game designer, archivist and artist

Community organiser and activist Raven Gill on fighting for the rights of trans and non-binary Bajans

Author Robert Jones, Jr. reads an excerpt from his New York Times best-selling debut novel, The Prophets

Author Robert Jones, Jr. discusses his New York Times best-selling debut novel, The Prophets

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

Lady Phyll and Frank Mugisha on utilising social media to fight for LGBTQ human rights, at Black Tech Fest 2021

Tobi Ajala and Yasmina Kone on how technology can be harnessed to empower marginalised communities

Langston Kahn is a queer Black teacher and shamanic practitioner who specialises in radical human transformation.