🌈 What do #MillyScott, #JeanguMacrooy & #Conchita Wurst tell us about who we are and who we might become?

#JoshRivers, #BusyBeingBlack joins me for Borders, Belonging & Becoming. 🖤

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#Eurovision #ESC #OGAENL #OGAEROTW

"WHAT ABOUT BLACK CULTURE IS BEING SUSTAINED AND COMMUNICATED IN [AN ARTISTIC] GESTURE IF IT REQUIRES US TO FOREGROUND WHITE CULTURAL ICONOGRAPHY?"

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Just in: a tender meditation on grief, healing and courage with Phoebe Boswell, a multidisciplinary artist creating portals that return us to our miraculous hearts.

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Trained in the mechanics of bioengineering and empowered by the imaginative possibilities of photography, Mikael Owunna's artistic practice conjures queer Black people as embodied reflections of the black and brilliant cosmos.

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“Pleasure is political. Seek out the pleasure. Find the pleasure. Even in the difficult, seek it out … because you’re not supposed to.” — Mojisola Adebayo

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“I want to be like jazz. I want to be alive and to be flexible and fluid and queer and curious—and to be ugly. I’m having such a good relationship with ugliness right now. I no longer want to perform morality.”

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In my conversation with Farzana Khan, the tender titan leading Healing Justice London, we explore the importance of attending to our grief, mobilising with an improved class consciousness and the transformative work of extending ourselves to each other’s aliveness.

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In my conversation with curator and scholar Maleke Glee, we explore the spiritual and percussive traditions of go-go music—a genre and sonic landscape native to D.C.—and how initiatives for Black inclusion within the art world often stifle Black vernacular cultures.

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"The persons who have the privilege to touch a particular industry may not have a relationship with a community, but they may be made a spokesperson—and sometimes a community doesn't need a spokesperson: they can speak for themselves."

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"We’re born into families with their own moral codes and morés; and you’ve got to carve a life out for yourself, with courage. That’s where there’s peace: in being yourself. You have the unquestionable birthright of the human spirit. It’s your job to call that forth."

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I want to be like jazz. I want to be alive and to be flexible and fluid and queer and curious—and ugly. I don't think Black culture has privileged our curiosity in things that are not overtly morally astute. I no longer want to perform morality.

Maleke Glee

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"We Are Rehearsing Freedom" is a tender and enlivening conversation about the potential of the Black radical imagination to help shift us out of oppressive landscapes and towards just and dignifying worlds that affirm Black aliveness. #BlackSky #BusyBeingBlack

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"So much about surrendering is usually by force. I am trying to live a life that is anchored in duty over obligation, and that is really and truly an invitation versus intrusion."

"Becoming Undone" with Elijah McKinnon is available wherever you listen to podcasts ✨

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This comment about Busy Being Black has made my day 🥹😭

"As a Black queer person, I still wrestle so much with knowing my worth in this white supremacist, anti-Black world but it's these conversations that uplift me and make me feel so seen!"

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Today, I'm #BusyBeingBlack with Legacy Russell. We explore her book, #BlackMeme, a timely investigation into visual culture that helps us appreciate and reckon with Black people's role in shaping the modern world.

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Paula Boggs is among a growing number of queer Black women returning to #bluegrass, a genre steeped in the musical traditions of Black America, to help make sense of what it means to be American. #busybeingblack

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