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 https://www.facebook.com/rizo.loves Connect with Ana: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8hgly https://instagram.com/msanamatronic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Image Credit BBC Radio 2

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 years as the International Correspondent before being asked to host All Things Considered.  He’s reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. He's covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel, and he has filed stories from five continents. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.  Shapiro has an unusual side-hustle for a news correspondent, he moonlights singing with Pink Martini, the shape-shifting pop orchestra that makes a joyful noise all over the world including venues like Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. A few years ago Ari assembled his own stories from his years as a journalist, paired them with songs to make his first solo cabaret show- a beautiful piece called Homeward. On stage he was most recently seen performing with the Scottish actor/ singer Alan Cumming in their new duo show, Och and Oy.   Ari and his husband Michael Gottleib inadvertently became faces of the fight for gay marriage when 2004 footage of their union was captured on the steps of San Francisco City Hall in the first few weeks after mayor Gavin Newsome performed a civil disobedience by issuing licences for same sex-marriage. He lives in Washington DC with his husband and dogs Simone and Bruce. Image credit Victor G Jeffreys II @victorjeffreysii Connect with Ari; https://instagram.com/arishapiro https://twitter.com/arishapiro Connect with Rizo: https://rizo.love https://www.patreon.com/rizolove https://www.instagram.com/rizo.love https://twitter.com/rizoloves https://www.facebook.com/rizo.loves

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 an Edna Ryan Award winner and UNICEF Australia’s National Ambassador for Child Survival, and has visited hospitals, maternity wards, refuges and schools as well as Syrian refugee camps in her UNICEF role. In 2014 she was recognized for Outstanding Advocacy for her blog Manus Island: An insider’s report, which helped to break information to the public about the alleged murder of Reza Barati inside the Manus Island Immigration Detention Centre. As a disabled woman and ambulatory wheelchair user diagnosed with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) after a hip injury in 2016, Tara has used her public profile to help de-stigmatize disability, chronic illness and chronic pain. In 2020 she accepted the honorary role of Pain Champion with Pain Australia. In the media and through her page ‘Tara and Wolfie’ (named for one of her first mobility aids), she brings advocacy and visibility to issues of disability and chronic illness, and the need to normalize mobility aids. Her latest book is the internationally best-selling novel The War Widow, featuring feminist 1940s PI Billie Walker and her disabled war vet assistant, Sam Baker. Buy Tara’s books; https://taramoss.com/tara-moss-books/ Image credit @berndtsellheimphotography Connect with Tara;; https://taramoss.com https://instagram.com/taramossauthor https://instagram.com/taraandwolfie https://twitter.com/tara_moss https://www.facebook.com/TaraandWolfie https://www.facebook.com/taramossauthor/ Connect with Rizo: https://rizo.love https://www.patreon.com/rizolove https://www.instagram.com/rizo.love https://twitter.com/rizoloves https://www.facebook.com/rizo.loves

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 sought out because it is hers— in perusing her body of books, articles and essays it seems the woman can make an interesting sentence about most anything, from Jay- Z to the roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius. We met in 2017, when my good friend Catie Lazarus (who this episode is dedicated, we lost Catie to cancer in December) paired us onstage in her show Employee of the Month.  Zadie Smith used the early lockdown period to pen a concise and powerful volume of six personal essays titled Intimations, that was released last summer.  All of her royalties for the book go to two charities, The Equal Justice Initiative and The COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund for New York. THANK you to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me the vehicle to make this work.  I couldn't and more importantly wouldn't have done it without their support. Join me there if you’d like to support this podcast, for as little as $2 per month with no obligation to stick around long term. patreon.com/rizolove www.zadiesmith.com Catie’s Podcast; https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/employee-of-the-month/id487274151

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 at the same time almost a decade ago. He was a bit of a life preserver for me by actually offering a place to land when everything was topsy turvy. I've saved his life back once as well. Here's to those that save our lives. Our conversation was recorded in August 2020, we discuss details of his daily writing practice, how this pandemic compares to his experience of the Aids epidemic, what has changed for him in this isolation year, the challenges of teach creative writing at Yale in this era, and how he uses his birthday as a personal yearly census. Michael Cunningham is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, By Nightfall, A Home at the End of the World and more. Moreover, he is also godfather to my son Tennyson, a dear friend, mentor and accomplice. He lives in Brooklyn, with his life partner of nearly 35 years, Ken Corbett. I must say THANK you to my patrons for giving me the vehicle and gas to make this work. I couldn't do it without their support. It is commercial free because of them. Please consider joining there at any level. To support the podcast yourself, go to https://patreon.com/rizolove

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 the Musical and television audiences have seen him as part of the casts of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert and The Wiz Live!  After touring as a lead vocalist for the popular music collective Post Modern Jukebox for several years, he left after being asked not to wear his Black Lives Matter pin on stage.

Mykal can be found on:

Instagram @mykalkilgore 

Web www.mykalkilgore.com

Twitter @mykalkilgore

Facebook @mykalkilgore

As always many thanks go to my wonderful Patrons, on patreon.com/rizoloves without whom this podcast would not be possible.   Thank you for allowing me to make --without having to think immediately of how I will sell it. 

Become a patron, join us, join us. There is so much on offer over there--including extras regarding this podcast.  Hoping to shine hardcore illumination straight into your world from mine.   Be a part of our growing troupe of misfits and thinkers connecting around shared ideas away from traditional media and social media. 

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Rizo

Baptized in Glitter is produced by Rizo, Debs Baird and Yonas Media