Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

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

Society & Culture
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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
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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
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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
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Langston Kahn – The World Needs You
Langston Kahn is a queer Black teacher and shamanic practitioner who specialises in radical human transformation.
50 min
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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
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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
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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
58
Lazarus Lynch – The Return
A conversation with Lazarus Lynch, the multi-hyphenate artist and chef behind Busy Being Black's theme music.
51 min
59
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
60
Ted Brown – Live at UK Black Pride 2021
A conversation with Ted Brown, one of our most important and formidable elders
46 min
61
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
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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
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Abdul-Aliy Muhammad – My Body Leads Me
Queer Black organiser and activist Abdul-Aliy Muhammad on learning to trust when their body tells them what to do in defence of what's right
61 min
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Taitu Heron – The Year of Our Lorde
A conversation with Taitu Heron on erotic agency, personal power and the complexities of silence
58 min
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George M. Johnson – All Boys Aren't Blue
A conversation with George M. Johnson about their memoir-manifesto, All Boys Aren't Blue.
56 min
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Jubi Arriola-Headley reads "Every God Is a Slow...
My conversation this week is with queer Black poet and storyteller Jubi Arriola-Headley. Among his altogether brilliant debut collection of poetry is the tremendous "Every God Is a Slowly Dying Sun"...
7 min
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Jubi Arriola-Headley – Original Kink
Queer Black poet and storyteller Jubi Arriola-Headly on his new book, gifts, grief and bearing witness to our own failures
55 min
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Jeffrey Pickering – Living with Love, Pragmatis...
A conversation with a gay Black elder, Jeffrey Pickering on his life, his love and his assiduous pursuit of education and culture
57 min
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Professor Therí Alyce Pickens – Black Madness :...
Professor Therí Alyce Pickens is Full Professor of English at Bates College, and her newest book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness, has done nothing short of set me alight.
55 min
70
Anthology/Appendix: Me and My Old Man
As part of this special series funded by the European Cultural Foundation, I’m delighted to be working with artist and activist Isaiah Lopaz to share exclusive first-listens to his new project, Anthology/Appendix.
8 min
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Viral Intimacies – Dr S Chelvan
In this final episode in this series supported by the European Cultural Foundation, I'm in conversation with Dr S Chelvan, a globally recognised legal expert on refugee and human rights claims based on sexual or gender identity and expression.
53 min
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Anthology/Appendix: The Return of the Prodigal ...
As part of this special series funded by the European Cultural Foundation, I’m delighted to be working with artist and activist Isaiah Lopaz to share exclusive first-listens to his new project, Anthology/Appendix.
20 min
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Viral Intimacies – Fatima El-Tayeb
Professor Fatima El-Tayeb is professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work deconstructs structural racism in “colorblind” Europe and centers strategies of resistance among racialized communities.
52 min
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Viral Intimacies – iki azaid funes
Today’s conversation is with iki azaid funes, a Venezuelan migrant and anti-racist activist currently seeking international protection in Spain. She’s a survivor of Covid-19, and her experience fighting Covid-19 and the regime...
47 min
75
Anthology/Appendix: On Not Dying In Germany
As part of this special series funded by the European Cultural Foundation, I’m delighted to be working with artist and activist Isaiah Lopaz to share exclusive first-listens to his new project, Anthology/Appendix.
16 min