PJ Samuels is a poet, educator and LGBTQ human rights activist whose work interrogates issues of race, gender, patriarchy, identity and belonging.
58 min
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Jeffrey Williams: Pilgrimage
Jeffrey Williams is a designer, stylist and creative director, whose visions of beauty are made manifest most regularly on the bodies of musical duo Lion Babe.
48 min
103
Repeat Beat Poet: For Coloured Boys
Peter “PJ” Johnson, more widely known as the Repeat Beat Poet, on hip-hop’s radical roots, the queering of the genre and how hip-hop has allowed, in the past and the present, a confrontation with expressions of Blackness that have historically been (an...
56 min
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Live: Josh Rivers and Campbell X at London Podc...
An exploration of nationhood, identity, diaspora, masculinity, mistakes and calling the community in at London Podcast Festival 2019.
62 min
105
Fran Tirado: Content Across Differences
A conversation with my friend and queero Fran Tirado on extending and expanding the modern queer cultural canon, the changing landscape of LGBTQ media and working in service of a greater purpose.
50 min
106
Kadian Pow: Embodied Experiences
An enriching, enlightening and energising conversation about intersectionality, the sociology of Blackness, Scandal, entrepreneurship and the building blocks of confidence with academic and entrepreneur Kadian Pow.
60 min
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Linda Devo: Creating Myself
Linda Devo is an artist, mentor, mother and teacher who founded Kiki, a club night and conversation for LGBTQ people of colour in Bristol.
57 min
108
Jason Jones: Walking Tall
Jason Jones is an LGBTQ human rights activist, most widely known for winning a landmark court case against Trinidad and Tobago. After a widely-anticipated win at the Privy Council, Jason's court case will have effectively liberated over 55m people
63 min
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Seyi Newell: Ecosystem of Change
Seyi Newell is the effervescent and dynamic founder of Tribe, an organisation dedicated to helping Black women explore, excel and thrive in everything they put their minds to.
49 min
110
Sandy Pianim: Queer, Black and Kinky
Sandy Pianim is the brand director of Recon, a platform for men and their fetishes, and he’s been on a journey over the past five years to help make Recon a more representative and inclusive platform for men of colour.
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Seyi Akiwowo: Fix the Glitch
Seyi Akiwowo is the founder of Glitch — a young and ambitious not-for-profit that exists to end online abuse. They believe our online community is as real as our offline one and that we should all be working together to make it a better place.
60 min
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Alexander Leon: Bridging the Divide
Alexander Leon on mental health, navigating a mixed race identity and his role as a mediator between cultures, ideas and beliefs.
52 min
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Amber Hikes: Eight-Stripe Hustle
Amber Hikes is the executive director of LGBT Affairs for the Mayor’s Office of Philadelphia, where she advocates for the most vulnerable populations within the LGBTQ community – specifically youth, elders, transgender people and people of colour.
62 min
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Marcus Daniel: Media Diversified
Marcus Daniel, editor-in-chief of Media Diversified, on reclaiming our time from racism, amplifying Black voices and what he hopes to achieve at the helm of one of the most important media platforms in the world.
53 min
115
Dylema: When I Named Myself, I Became a Poet
Poet and singer Dylema on imprinting herself on Igbo culture, renaming herself, coming out to her mother and her ever-evolving and expanding ideas of what it means to be a feminist.
48 min
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Ben Ellis: Pansies
Poet Ben Ellis on conversion therapy, mental health, the emotional cost of his poetry and using his pain to help prevent and alleviate the pain of others like him.
47 min
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Patrick Vernon OBE: Museum of Grooves
In conversation with Patrick Vernon OBE, the activist, historian, former politician and cultural curator and one of the Black Britons who has been instrumental in uncovering a Black British identity.
49 min
118
Alex Reads: Healing Is the Only Option
In a searching and probing conversation, we discuss whether (and how) we exist outside of our Blackness, the meaning of life and the vital and never-ending importance of self-reflection.
49 min
119
Jean Lloyd: Emancipating the Human Spirit
To start the year, we explore the difference between talking and communication; forgiveness and making peace with unanswered questions and missing apologies; the urgent, important and life-long work of being ourselves whether or not the world affirms u...
59 min
120
John Amaechi OBE: Everyday Jedi
John Amaechi OBE on greatness in the mundane, the attendant anger of any awakening and the moment he realised he could be a Jedi.
57 min
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Otamere Guobadia: No Redemption in Masculinity
Otamere Guobadia is a writer whose words are searing, prescient and beautiful, striking at the heart of issues we battle with everyday.
49 min
122
Campbell X: Visible
Campbell X is an award-winning filmmaker whose work often explores queer masculinity and desire, reframing our queer Black lives outside of the white gaze and disrupting the oppressive Eurocentric white paradigm through which we see the world and ourse...
76 min
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Kelechi Okafor: Go Back to the Source
Kelechi Okafor takes me on a deep-dive into Yoruba spirituality, the numinous guides she calls upon everyday and how her social media has always only ever been for herself.
59 min
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Christania: Build Your Own Table
Today, I’m in conversation with Christania, the editor and chief of queer Black online magazine AZ Mag. Together with a small group of queer Black women, Christania set up AZ mag because she didn’t see herself reflected in mainstream LGBTQ media. AZ Ma...
59 min
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FKA: Too Black, Too White
Alongside drag as art and how FKA has learned to thrive in their gender fluidity, we dive into sex, drugs and desire; the validation we’ve sought in the arms and beds of white men; and what they’ve learned about the importance of loving other Black folk.