THE BLACK MARVELLOUS
Our most miraculous hearts
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Our most miraculous hearts
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Phoebe Boswell is a portrait painter and multidisciplinary artist who creates portals that return us to the tender magnificence of our miraculous hearts.

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Rehumanising the Black meme
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Rehumanising the Black meme
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Legacy Russell is a curator and writer who shows how Black people have shaped viral culture, revealing the economies of extraction that predate the internet and pointing towards collective world-building.

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The imaginative work of becoming undone
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The imaginative work of becoming undone
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Elijah McKinnon is the executive diva of OTV, and an imagination worker turning dreams into reality with decisive, intersectional and enlivening action across the media ecosystem.

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I HAVE MAGIC TO WORK

Mikael Owunna on what 50 expressions of queer Black liveliness taught him about our divinity.

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I SPARKLE WHEN I SLEEP

malakaï sargeant on the ways art helps us dream beyond the limits of our carceral geographies.

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ANCESTRAL INTERFERENCE

Zinzi Minott on rhythm as anticipation and dance as an expression of Black hope and futurity.

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AN INVITATION TO PLEASURE

Da’Shaun L. Harrison on the necessity of nurturing an erotic and world-ending intimacy between us.

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THE COST OF OUR SHAME

Rahim Thawer on confronting desirability and learning to love ourselves in deeply intimate relationship with others.

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MY BODY LEADS ME

Abdul Aliy-Muhammad on respecting and defending the bodily sovereignty of people living with HIV.

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Listened to Busy Being Black for the first time today. Beautiful, nuanced, emotionally intelligent, fun and human conversations. More people need to hear this brilliant podcast. I’ll be back.

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A MODERN BLACK HISTORY HERO

Kenyon Farrow on the ways queer Black communities create caring spaces against the odds.

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FEED THE BEAST

Pádraig Ó Tuama on the erotic intelligence of our bodies and poetry as ferryman to the underworld of our desires.

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