Busy Being Black

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

Society & Culture
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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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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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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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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
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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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Dr S Chelvan: A Future Beyond Labels
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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Fatima El-Tayeb: The Impossibility of Europe
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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iki azaid funes: Nosotrxs No Escogimos Este Futuro
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
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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
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Olave Nduwanje: Bearing Witness
My conversation today is with artist, author, legal scholar and activist Olave Nduwanje. Working across anti-racism, LGBTQ rights, anti-capitalism and disability movements, Olave brings to this conversation a wonderfully expansive...
62 min
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Anthology/Appendix: In the Eyes of Our Mothers
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.
13 min
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Adeola Aderemi: Softness Is Our Birthright
Adeola Aderemi is a multilingual Afro-Greek and multi format artist, scholar, activist and healer, who spends a great deal of time amplifying the voices of and fighting for marginalised women. She is the editor in chief of Distinguished Diva...
51 min