Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

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

Society & Culture
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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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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
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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
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Lazarus Lynch – The Return
A conversation with Lazarus Lynch, the multi-hyphenate artist and chef behind Busy Being Black's theme music.
51 min
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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
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Ted Brown – Live at UK Black Pride 2021
A conversation with Ted Brown, one of our most important and formidable elders
46 min
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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