Busy Being Black with Josh Rivers is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 9 hours 36 minutes
episode 26: 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.
episode 25: 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.
episode 24: 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...
episode 23: 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.
episode 22: 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.
episode 21: 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...
episode 20: 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.
episode 19: 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...
episode 18: 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.
episode 17: Shahmir Sanni: The Whistleblower
Shahmir Sanni was thrust into the international spotlight after blowing the whistle on Vote Leave’s law-breaking during the EU referendum. Shahmir is a reminder to us all that the only way to secure the future we deserve is to fight for it.