Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers

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Episodes: 142

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The award-winning podcast that centres and celebrates queer Black liveliness.

Episode Date
Sensuous Knowledge — Minna Salami
Apr 24, 2026
Dancing to Freedom — Candice D'Meza
Apr 18, 2026
The Paradise of Our Intimacy — Dean Atta
Mar 25, 2026
How to Love Yourself — Dean Atta
Mar 21, 2026
The Alchemy of Black Joy — Rosel Jackson Stern
Mar 10, 2026
All My Poems Are Sad N*gga Poems — Ben Ellis
Oct 21, 2025
Our Miraculous Hearts — Phoebe Boswell
Sep 21, 2025
Black Duende — Mojisola Adebayo
Jun 25, 2025
A Life Worth Writing About — Kuchenga Shenjé
Dec 31, 2024
Rehumanising the Black Meme — Legacy Russell
Dec 10, 2024
A Posture of Improvisation — Maleke Glee
Nov 26, 2024
Our Stories, Told By Us — Angelina Namiba
Aug 26, 2024
Sustaining Our Thriving — Dennis Carney
Aug 12, 2024
My Word Creates My World — Jean Lloyd
Aug 05, 2024
Black to the Future — Irenosen Okojie
Jul 30, 2024
We Are Rehearsing Freedom
Jul 16, 2024
The Magic and Black Genius of Jazz — Julian Joseph OBE
Oct 28, 2023
Elijah McKinnon – Becoming Undone
Oct 04, 2023
D Smith – A Provocation for More
Aug 02, 2023
Leon Benson – I'm Living Like I Died Before
Jul 15, 2023
Kenyon Farrow – A Modern Black History Hero
Jun 28, 2023
Rikki Beadle-Blair – Yearning into Creation
Jun 21, 2023
Farzana Khan – Extending Ourselves to Each Other's Aliveness
Jun 15, 2023
Mikael Owunna – I Have Magic to Work
May 31, 2023
Rahim Thawer – Sexuality and the Imprint of Shame
May 17, 2023
Emily Aboud – Splintered
Apr 26, 2023
Paula Boggs – Ebony Revisited
Apr 05, 2023
Mojisola Adebayo – The Beautiful in the Brutal
Mar 08, 2023
Pádraig Ó Tuama – Feed the Beast
Feb 25, 2023
Father Jarel Robinson-Brown – The Rhythm of Our Faith
Feb 22, 2023
Marc Thompson – I Have a Virus Older Than You
Feb 11, 2023
Dagmawi Woubshet – The Calendar of Loss
Feb 08, 2023
Prince Shakur – When They Tell You to Be Good
Dec 24, 2022
Nakhane – Do You Well
Dec 03, 2022
Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein – The Disordered Cosmos
Nov 19, 2022
F*ck / Sunflowers by Inua Ellams
Nov 06, 2022
malakaï sargeant – I Sparkle When I Sleep
Nov 05, 2022
Come Into This
Oct 19, 2022
Marquis Bey – A Curator of Prophecies
Oct 18, 2022
Dionne Edwards – Attempting Utopia
Oct 08, 2022
Afrorithms from the Future
Oct 01, 2022
Ahmed Best – Hope Among the Stars
Oct 01, 2022
Episode 100 — The Dancing Boy
Jul 30, 2022
Rico Norwood – A Quare Gaze
Jul 16, 2022
Travis Alabanza – None of the Above
Jun 11, 2022
Jafari S. Allen – There's a Disco Ball Between Us
May 28, 2022
Da'Shaun L. Harrison – An Invitation to Pleasure
May 14, 2022
Da'Shaun L. Harrison – Belly of the Beast
May 14, 2022
Zinzi Minott – Ancestral Interference
Apr 30, 2022
Shrouk El-Attar – The Dancing Queer
Apr 03, 2022
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley – Knowing Where to Dig
Mar 12, 2022
Raven Gill – The Bajan Butterfly
Feb 26, 2022
Robert Jones, Jr. reads "New Covenant" from The Prophets
Feb 12, 2022
Robert Jones, Jr. – The Prophets
Feb 12, 2022
Edafe Okporo – My Brother's Keeper
Jan 29, 2022
Frank Mugisha and Lady Phyll – Live at Black Tech Fest 2021
Dec 01, 2021
Tobi Ajala and Yasmina Kone – Live at Black Tech Fest 2021
Nov 10, 2021
Langston Kahn – The World Needs You
Oct 27, 2021
Koritha Mitchell – Living Out Loud
Oct 20, 2021
Dr Francesca Sobande – The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain
Oct 13, 2021
Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu – The Muscle of Our Imagination
Oct 06, 2021
Lazarus Lynch – The Return
Aug 25, 2021
Territorial – The Calling of the Spirits
Aug 10, 2021
Ted Brown – Live at UK Black Pride 2021
Jul 17, 2021
Written on the Waves – A Conversation Across Space and Time
May 29, 2021
Shiloh Coke – Recognition
May 29, 2021
Abdul-Aliy Muhammad – My Body Leads Me
May 02, 2021
Taitu Heron – The Year of Our Lorde
Apr 17, 2021
George M. Johnson – All Boys Aren't Blue
Mar 06, 2021
Jubi Arriola-Headley reads "Every God Is a Slowly Dying Sun"
Feb 06, 2021
Jubi Arriola-Headley – Original Kink
Feb 06, 2021
Jeffrey Pickering – Living with Love, Pragmatism and Passion
Jan 30, 2021
Professor Therí Alyce Pickens – Black Madness :: Mad Blackness
Jan 23, 2021
Anthology/Appendix: Me and My Old Man
Nov 28, 2020
Viral Intimacies – Dr S Chelvan
Nov 28, 2020
Anthology/Appendix: The Return of the Prodigal Father
Nov 15, 2020
Viral Intimacies – Fatima El-Tayeb
Nov 15, 2020
Viral Intimacies – iki azaid funes
Oct 31, 2020
Anthology/Appendix: On Not Dying In Germany
Oct 17, 2020
Viral Intimacies – Olave Nduwanje
Oct 17, 2020
Anthology/Appendix: In the Eyes of Our Mothers
Oct 03, 2020
Viral Intimacies – Adeola Aderemi
Oct 03, 2020
Anthology/Appendix: A Wednesday Affair
Sep 12, 2020
Viral Intimacies – Liz Fekete
Sep 12, 2020
Eddie Bruce-Jones: Race in the Shadow of Law
Jul 11, 2020
BL Shirelle: Assata Troi
Jul 04, 2020
Lama Rod Owens: Bad Buddhist
Jun 06, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Dr Oni Blackstock
May 22, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Bakita Kasadha
May 16, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Charity So White
Apr 25, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Ben Hurst
Apr 11, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Moud Goba
Apr 04, 2020
Lady Phyll and a Busload of Black Lesbians
Mar 27, 2020
Theory in the Flesh – Professor Rusi Jaspal
Mar 26, 2020
What's Wrong, What's Worse?
Feb 22, 2020
Sea Sharp: Black Cotton
Feb 22, 2020
Did You Know You Were Marrying a Black Man?
Feb 08, 2020
Chantelle Lewis: De-essentialising Mixed Race
Feb 08, 2020
Liv Little: Unafraid to Love
Jan 25, 2020
Rav Bansal: Encountering My Divine
Nov 23, 2019
PJ Samuels: Black She
Nov 04, 2019
Jeffrey Williams: Pilgrimage
Oct 19, 2019
Repeat Beat Poet: For Coloured Boys
Oct 12, 2019
Live: Josh Rivers and Campbell X at London Podcast Festival 2019
Oct 05, 2019
Fran Tirado: Content Across Differences
Sep 28, 2019
Kadian Pow: Embodied Experiences
Aug 03, 2019
Linda Devo: Creating Myself
Jun 22, 2019
Jason Jones: Walking Tall
Jun 08, 2019
Seyi Newell: Ecosystem of Change
May 18, 2019
Sandy Pianim: Queer, Black and Kinky
May 03, 2019
Seyi Akiwowo: Fix the Glitch
Apr 24, 2019
Alexander Leon: Bridging the Divide
Apr 20, 2019
Amber Hikes: Eight-Stripe Hustle
Apr 07, 2019
Marcus Daniel: Media Diversified
Mar 09, 2019
Dylema: When I Named Myself, I Became a Poet
Feb 09, 2019
Ben Ellis: Pansies
Feb 02, 2019
Patrick Vernon OBE: Museum of Grooves
Jan 26, 2019
Alex Reads: Healing Is the Only Option
Jan 20, 2019
Jean Lloyd: Emancipating the Human Spirit
Jan 01, 2019
John Amaechi OBE: Everyday Jedi
Dec 09, 2018
Otamere Guobadia: No Redemption in Masculinity
Nov 10, 2018
Campbell X: Visible
Oct 28, 2018
Kelechi Okafor: Go Back to the Source
Oct 06, 2018
Christania: Build Your Own Table
Sep 22, 2018
FKA: Too Black, Too White
Sep 08, 2018
Shahmir Sanni: The Whistleblower
Aug 25, 2018
Dr Kehinde Andrews: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Aug 18, 2018
Travis Alabanza: Black Bones and Cycles
Jul 25, 2018
Reverend Jide Macaulay: House of Rainbow
Jul 15, 2018
Lady Phyll: Mother of the Movement
Jul 01, 2018
Phil Samba: I Am Not a Stereotype
Jun 25, 2018
Tobi Kyeremetang: Permission
May 22, 2018
Dean Atta: Black Flamingo
May 14, 2018
Lili Ming and Kenny Jones: Transparency
May 01, 2018
Topher Campbell: Fetish
Apr 22, 2018
Micheal Rice: Black Diamonds in Ice Castles
Apr 13, 2018
Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE: The Persistent Optimist
Mar 25, 2018
Marc Thompson: Possibility and Appropriation
Mar 17, 2018
Marc Thompson: I Have a Virus Older Than You
Mar 10, 2018
Ryan Lanji: Hungama
Mar 03, 2018
Bisi Alimi: Angelic Troublemaker
Mar 02, 2018
A Statement of Intent
Mar 01, 2018