Busy Being Black | Joshua Rivers | Substack

A solitary pirate sails down the dusted cunt of my back, the only remnant of the life that used to surge here.

Sep 26, 2025 • Joshua Rivers

Surrender your armour

Phoebe Boswell is a portrait painter and multidisciplinary artist who creates portals that return us to the tender magnificence of our miraculous…

Sep 21, 2025 • Joshua Rivers

An eager love letter to Tom Ford

What is love if you cannot profess it openly? There is no flattery in secrecy.

Sep 3, 2025 • Joshua Rivers

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Homo Poetry 01: some lessons do not require blood

Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw and owning our divine directives.

Aug 19, 2025 • Joshua Rivers

Faeries on Fire

Travis Alabanza employs the chaotic and the spectacular to remind us that we cannot afford performance art as entertainment alone.

Aug 10, 2025 • Joshua Rivers

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