Baptized in Glitter

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International grammy-winning chanteuse and comedienne Rizo hosts the podcast equivalent of the red corner couch at an artist’s salon. Throw on your kaftan and grab your favorite glass as conversations dive deep into how we survive and how we thrive. Baptized in Glitter features one-on-one intimate discussions that grapple with the immensity of living: from the profound to the mundane and hilarious. Guests are pulled from Rizo’s global web of eloquent artist friends and peers.

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Episodes

Ana Matronic: Grief. Robots. Disco and Drag. Filthy gorgeous tales of a show-woman.

To be a part of the continuing growth of this podcast please head over to patreon.com /rizolove where you’ll find various ways to support me and my work…. Rizo has expansive chats with her pal Ana Matronic, BBC Radio 2 DJ, published sci-fi writer, Scissor Sister and New York City party thrower, about death, touring life, drag, robots and music, plus much more. Connect with Rizo: https://rizo.love https://www.patreon.com/rizolove https://www.instagram.com/rizo.love https://twitter.com/rizoloves h...

Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Ari Shapiro: The Renaissance man behind the news. Journalist. Singer.

To be a part of the continuing growth of this podcast please head over to patreon.com /rizolove where you’ll find various ways to support me and my work.. “Tikkun Olam; leave the world a better place than you found it” Ari Shapiro, the voice many depend on to bring their news as the host of All Things Considered started as an intern for NPR right after college and quickly rose through the ranks. After four years as NPR's White House Correspondent during President Obama's terms, Ari spent two yea...

Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Tara Moss: Kick ass women at the centre of the story

To be a part of the continuing growth of this podcast please head over to patreon.com /rizolove where you’ll find various ways to support me and my work.. Tara Moss; glamorous and adventurous crime writer who tirelessly advocates for the rights of women, children and the disabled. Tara Moss is a Canadian-Australian author of 13 books of fiction and non-fiction, a documentary maker, and an outspoken champion for human rights and the rights of women, children and people with disabilities. She is a...

Jun 26, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Zadie Smith: “complicated, but always human”

Zadie Smith; Novelist, Essayist, Thinker for our time. Zadie's first novel White Teeth was published at the tender age of 25, she was still a student at Cambridge when the unfinished manuscript of her first novel sparked a bidding war between publishers- it went on to be an instant success garnering praise and awards. Since then, she has long been an interpreter of multicultural Britain but has resisted becoming a symbol for it. She has become the rare kind of writer who’s opinion is regularly s...

Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Michael Cunningham: Writing is a Cultivated Delusion

I find Michael Cunningham's conversational skill to be that of a rogue mystic poet- often finding a way to tell the simplest of stories with a gravitas that makes you feel like you've unlocked a divine mystery. We met at a radical faerie commune in Tennessee, kept in touch after that and then quickly found ourselves in a lusciously degenerate intimate party scene, staying up late and dancing in various apartments around New York City. We then further connected when we separated from our husbands...

Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Mykal Kilgore: I'm Not Your Exotic Songbird, Pairing Art with Activism

In this inaugural episode I chat with the incredible Mykal Kilgore. Mykal's debut full-length release, A Man Born Black , which has earned him an NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding New Artist, is a stunning, groove-based exploration of faith, loss, blackness and the trials of love. Mykal became a viral sensation for for his gospel-themed song “Reclaiming My Time” based on the statement made popular by famed Congresswoman Maxine Waters. He has appeared on Broadway in Hair and Motown th...

Nov 20, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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