AN EXPLORATION AND EXPRESSION OF OUR LIVELINESS

Busy Being Black® is the award-winning podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. Whether we’re searching for our place in the vast expanse of the universe or tracing our ancestral lineages through dance, guests on Busy Being Black bring their hard earned wisdom to your ears and heart each episode. From Black Trans Feminist theory to poetry, HIV/AIDS activism and questions of Black masculinity, Busy Being Black centres queer Black hope as we discuss what it means to show up as ourselves against the odds.

Come into this. Look what was made for you.

WE ARE DIVINE

Conversations to project you into the cosmos of our brilliance

“The Flying African” by Mikael Owunna
Image courtesy of the artist

EMBODIED WISDOM

Conversations to encourage engagement with our sensuous and sensory vessels

Photo by Marine Sintes on Unsplash

BECOMING UNDONE

Elijah McKinnon on how an entitlement to softness enables the community building, artistic vitality and the work of bringing their imagination to life.

A PROVOCATION FOR MORE

D Smith on creating art that reflects the cultural contributions of Black LGBTQ people and provokes conversations about the world we want to inhabit together

A MODERN BLACK HISTORY HERO

Kenyon Farrow on the ways queer Black communities create spaces of love, care, spiritual renewal and healing

I’M LIVING LIKE I DIED BEFORE

Leon Benson on the metaphysics of survival and maintaining faith in justice after spending 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit

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