Musician, songwriter and lawyer Paula Boggs on the West African roots of Bluegrass and creating music amid a collective crisis

Playwright and theatre maker Mojisola Adebayo on reanimating the life and story of Henrietta Lacks, seeking pleasure and challenging whiteness

Poet and theologian Pdraig Tuama on the erotic intelligence of our bodies and poems from his latest collection, Feed the Beast

Queer Black theologian and Anglican priest Father Jarel Robinson-Brown on grace, forgiveness, desire and Christianity at the end of the world

Longtime HIV activist and community organiser, Marc Thompson, shares his experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1980's London

A tender and thought-provoking conversation with Dagmawi Woubshet on utilising grief as a political act

Author and journalist Prince Shakur on what writing his memoir taught him about telling the truth, cultivating courage and the similarities between writing a book and falling in love

South African artist and musician Nakhane on defining love the hard way, staying true to yourself and art as a calling to be taken very seriously

Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist and Black feminist physicist who challenges to the dominant understanding of physics

F*ck / Sunflowers is a poem by Inua Ellams within Ellams' triumphant book, The Actual, which is published by and available from Penned in the Margins