River Gallo: Love, Breakups, Miracles and Resurrection

Seriously Authentic

River is an artist, actor, and hopeful romantic. River is not afraid to welcome love in but also to let it go. If you are at a crossroads in love, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Seriously Authentic, Larissa speaks with River Gallo, River (they/them) is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model, and intersex activist from New Jersey. River wrote, produced, and co-starred in Ponyboi, the feature film will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition section. They were also the subject of the critically acclaimed feature documentary EVERY BODY directed by Academy-award nominated director Julie Cohen.

In this conversation River & Larissa cover:

• Love and letting go
• River’s experience dating as an intersex, trans, non-binary human
• River goes over their past of letting people in whose intentions are to use or objectify them
• River speaks to what they have come up against in dating, including internalized homophobia, and how they feel they’ve been a “stomping ground for men to figure their shit out”
• River breaks down what they are looking for sustainability in love to be liberated and free
• Accepting someone fully allows you to discover your own desires
• How what we think we want is not actually what we want
• How ending a relationship is ultimately about loving yourself
• The saddest part of a breakup is that you are breaking up with a part of yourself
• Breakups trigger grief for River around who they were as well as an acceptance of the person that they are becoming
• River’s thoughts on scarcity in dating
• Maintaining hope and manifestation
• River explains how dating makes them crave a long-term partner and how they are expanded by dating multiple people and learning what kind of partner they really want
• Why sustainability in dating is so sexy
• River breaks down how the people they date are a mirror of their own complicated relationship with themselves
• River used to be a hopeless romantic but is now a hopeful romantic
• River is curious about how to elapse time to skip the heartbreak
• Growth can happen in quantum leaps
• River speaks to how society wants us to get over grief and how we all need to honor it more, because we are changed forever
• Being open to new beginnings in love

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River: https://www.rivergallo.com/about

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