Busy Being Black
Latest Episodes
malakaï sargeant – I Sparkle When I Sleep
Artist, producer and educator malaka sargeant on dreaming beyond the carceral geographies of our cities, liveliness through land and lineage, and queerness as ancestral gift
Come Into This
Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the award-winning podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.
Marquis Bey – A Curator of Prophecies
Marquis Bey on the Black Trans Feminist imagination, enchantment in the quotidian and theorists and poets as prophets
Dionne Edwards – Attempting Utopia
Screenwriter and director Dionne Edwards on telling the stories of flawed characters with care and pursuing utopia with the hope we never get there
Afrorithms from the Future
Ahmed Best and Dr Lonny Brooks play Afrorithms from the Future with Long Time Academy host Ella Saltmarshe
Ahmed Best – Hope Among the Stars
Actor, educator and futurist Ahmed Best on grappling with the magnitude of the universe and harnessing our imaginations for the future(s) we deserve
Episode 100 – The Dancing Boy
To honour Busy Being Black's 100th episode, artist and musician DYLEMA interviews Busy Being Black's creator and host, Josh Rivers
Rico Norwood – A Quare Gaze
Rico Norwood on the enduring importance of Looking for Langston, cultural memory-making and remediating access to our cultural archives
Travis Alabanza – None of the Above
In this live recording of Busy Being Black at Shoreditch House, Travis Alabanza explores their new book, None of the Above
Jafari S. Allen – There's a Disco Ball Between Us
A conversation with one of my intellectual idols, Jafari S. Allen, about his new book and Black gay habits of mind