Jazz pianist Julian Joseph on how the art of improvisation animates music and life

Elijah McKinnon on refusing to be bound by other people's labels and ideas, and their entitlement to softness

Kokomo City is an unapologetic and cutting analysis of Black culture and society at large that vibrates with energy, sex and hard-earned wisdom and tenderness, intimacy and humour.

The metaphysics of time, space and justice with Leon Benson, a lyricist and educator who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit

Writer and organiser Kenyon Farrow is fighting for better infrastructures of support for queer Black people vulnerable to and living with HIV. He trained as an actor before he pivoting to activism in response to the fault lines he saw emerging as gentrifi

Rikki Beadle-Blair is a Black national treasure whose persistent optimism is essential to his world-making creativity

Farzana Khan is the tender titan leading the transformative work of Healing Justice London and her practice calls us to an embodied wholeness

Multimedia artist and engineer Mikael Owunna on Blackness as divine cosmic principle and transforming our collective consciousness

Psychotherapist and social worker Rahim Thawer on dismantling shame and nurturing innovative queer relationships

Theatre and film director Emily Aboud on the intersections and similarities of art and science and telling the stories of queer women with joy and laughter