Busy Being Black

Busy Being Black


Latest Episodes

malakaï sargeant – I Sparkle When I Sleep
November 05, 2022

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
October 19, 2022

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
October 18, 2022

Marquis Bey on the Black Trans Feminist imagination, enchantment in the quotidian and theorists and poets as prophets

Dionne Edwards – Attempting Utopia
October 07, 2022

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
September 30, 2022

Ahmed Best and Dr Lonny Brooks play Afrorithms from the Future with Long Time Academy host Ella Saltmarshe

Ahmed Best – Hope Among the Stars
September 30, 2022

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
July 29, 2022

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
July 16, 2022

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
June 11, 2022

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
May 28, 2022

A conversation with one of my intellectual idols, Jafari S. Allen, about his new book and Black gay habits of mind