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Embracing All of Me

History loves neat categories. We don't. Black or white. Saint or sinner. Hero or villain. Gay or straight. The people who shape culture often live somewhere in between. Communicator Award winner. International podcast award nominee, Diepodfluencer. Binary Bashers is a storytelling podcast about the artists, rebels, and cultural icons whose lives broke the labels the world tried to give them. Each episode follows one life, or a few connected ones, through the music, poems, paintings, letters, and relationships they left behind, with the cultural context that made them possible. The series centers bi+ history, the part of these stories most often skipped, flattened, or folded into something else. Host Ross Victory reads each figure through a bi-coded lens: finding documented attraction to more than one gender in their own words, art, and relationships, and translating that evidence for listeners today. The lens never assigns a label a person didn't claim. It shows what the record holds and lets them stay who they were. Every episode is made for anyone curious about culture, identity, and the lives behind famous names. If you've ever felt like you didn't fit a neat box, you'll find precedent here. If you just love a great story told well, you'll find that too. VOLUMES Binary Bashers: Volume 1 Black American history, from the Harlem Renaissance to today. Claude McKay, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Countee Cullen, June Jordan, Pauli Murray, Kuwasi Balagoon, Dr. Ibrahim Farajajé, and more. Binary Bashers: Latinidad (Volume 2) Latin American history across music, literature, art, and politics. Juan Gabriel, Alejandra Pizarnik, Frida Kahlo, and more. FOR EDUCATORS Episodes are fully sourced and built for classrooms, book clubs, and community groups. Suitable for listeners 16+. LEARN MORE What "bi-coded" means: embracingallofme.org/binary-bashers-bi-coded Series home: embracingallofme.org/binary-bashers Binary Bashers is researched, written, and narrated by Ross Victory and produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between.

  1. 6d ago

    Vol. 2 - Latinidad: Brazil Sang Along. But Did It Know Them? | Cazuza, Renato Russo & Cássia Eller

    Three rock stars. One songbook. A country that knew every lyric but didn't always recognize the lives behind them. In Brazil's explosive rock scene, Cazuza, Renato Russo, and Cássia Eller shaped a generation through music, sexuality, and unconventional love. One spoke openly about bisexuality and AIDS. Another embedded pansexual desire into anthems sung by thousands. The third built a queer family whose fight for recognition would challenge Brazilian law. Their stories intersect through songwriting credits, enduring friendships, HIV/AIDS, and the complicated politics of visibility. In this episode of Binary Bashers: Latinidad, Ross follows the musical evidence connecting three Brazilian icons, excavating a bi and queer lineage hiding in plain sight. What happens when a country celebrates your art but struggles to recognize your whole identity? If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 - Latinidad: Brazil Sang Along. But Did It Know Them? | Cazuza, Renato Russo & Cássia Eller

  2. Oct 11

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - Who Gets to Love Frida Kahlo?

    Frida Kahlo is everywhere: on candles, sneakers, and a Barbie with softened brows. But how much of the bisexual Mexican painter can we still see? In this episode of the Binary Bashers: Latinidad podcast, host Ross Victory looks beyond the icon to the rooms Frida entered and the stories told about her. From Diego Rivera's double standard to Mary Reynolds's care in Paris and Frida's letters to painter Jacqueline Lamba, the episode traces desire, evidence, and bi erasure in queer Latina history. What gets lost when a bisexual Latina artist becomes a brand? Visibility is not the same as being known. If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and to respecting each figure's legacy and family, and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - Who Gets to Love Frida Kahlo?

  3. Oct 6

    Vol. 2 Latinidad: Alejandra Pizarnik - All of Me in Closed Boxes

    In “Alejandra Pizarnik: All of Me in Closed Boxes,” Binary Bashers: Latinidad explores the Argentine poet’s Jewish immigrant roots, love for men and women, and struggle with language that could never hold her whole. Through letters, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts, Ross Victory follows a bi-coded archive beyond the myth of the doomed poet, asking how literary acclaim and selective publications narrowed her legacy, and what becomes possible when we read her own words left in the boxes. HOW TO VOTE FOR EMBRACING ALL OF ME Signal Awards → Individual Episode → Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact → Embracing All of Me → Vote If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 Latinidad: Alejandra Pizarnik - All of Me in Closed Boxes

  4. Oct 4

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - Can I Trust You With My Story? Miguel Piñero: Ashes in Their Hands

    Puerto Rican playwright and poet Miguel Piñero carried the Lower East Side onto Broadway with Short Eyes and helped build the Nuyorican Poets Café. His writing exposed masculinity’s armor; his relationships crossed its boundaries. In Binary Bashers: Latinidad, Ross Victory traces Piñero’s incarceration, creative brilliance, bisexual history, and allegations surrounding his legacy. Through Martin Wong’s paintings and Miguel Algarín’s fiercely protective love, “Ashes in Their Hands” asks what we owe the people whose stories we inherit. If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - Can I Trust You With My Story? Miguel Piñero: Ashes in Their Hands

  5. Sep 30

    Vol 2. Latinidad - I Know What You've Been Saying about Me - Mario de Andrade and the Love of Everything

    Mário de Andrade spent his life resisting the demand to become one thing. Poet, novelist, musician, folklorist, photographer, and architect of Brazilian modernism, he made contradiction part of his form. In 1928, responding to rumors about his “so-called homosexuality,” Mário wrote: “I don’t deny it.” Years later, he created a word for himself and described in himself a kind of “pan-sensuality,” while private writings and correspondence left evidence pointing in more than one direction. This episode follows those fragments alongside Macunaíma, his complicated modernist masterpiece, and the archive he sealed for fifty years. Binary Bashers: Latinidad asks what happens when a life, and its archive, refuses to resolve itself for us. Also, Embracing All of Me, the podcast and producer of Binary Bashers has been nominated for a Signal Award. The episode A Black Bisexual Blueprint for Belonging & Survival with Zoomy Taylor & Chizu is a finalist in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category. Would you mind taking 3 seconds to support us with a vote? How to Vote for the Signal Awards Go to the Signal Awards voting website Create an account or sign in Select Individual Episode Go to Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact Find “Beyond Binaries: A Black Bisexual Blueprint for Belonging & Survival” from Embracing All of Me Tap Vote If you notice any factual errors in this episode, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol 2. Latinidad - I Know What You've Been Saying about Me - Mario de Andrade and the Love of Everything

  6. Sep 27

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Borderlands of Gloria Anzaldúa

    Gloria Anzaldúa spent her life writing from the borderlands, between languages, cultures, genders, bodies, and ways of belonging. From the fields of South Texas to Borderlands/La Frontera, she transformed experiences of linguistic policing, chronic pain, queerness, and cultural displacement into a radical language for multiplicity. In this episode of Binary Bashers: Latinidad, Ross Victory traces Anzaldúa’s life, her concept of the border as an open wound, her reclamation of mita y mita, and her insistence that identity cannot always be contained by inherited categories. Her work asks what becomes possible when we stop treating the in-between as confusion—and begin recognizing it as its own place of knowledge. If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Borderlands of Gloria Anzaldúa

  7. Sep 15

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Defiance of Juan Gabriel

    Binary Bashers Vol. 2: Latinidad opens Latinx Heritage Month with Juan Gabriel, the Mexican music icon who made a career out of refusing easy categories. Born Alberto Aguilera Valadez, Juan Gabriel traveled from Ciudad Juárez clubs and “No Tengo Dinero” to the Palacio de Bellas Artes, crossing ranchera, bolero, pop, gender expectations, and the line between popular culture and artistic prestige. Through songs like “Amor Eterno,” he created a musical language for grief, love, defiance, and belonging that generations across Mexico and Latin America made their own. This episode explores what Juan Gabriel’s life and legacy reveal about Latinidad, cultural gatekeeping, queer possibility, and the freedom of being larger than any label. If you notice any factual errors, please contact us at stories@embracingallofme.org. We are committed to accuracy and respect of the figures legacy and family and will issue corrections as needed. Binary Bashers is produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between, uplifting bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. For more, visit embracingallofme.org.

    Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Defiance of Juan Gabriel

  8. Season 2, Episode 1 Trailer

    Binary Bashers: Latinidad - Who Was Allowed to Be Written Down

    Binary Bashers: Latinidad uncovers the hidden bi-coded and queer history of Black and Brown Latin America, from Mexico to Brazil, Texas to Argentina, to the seven countries where the archive went silent by design. Launching for Latinx Heritage Month 2026, Volume 2 of the Binary Bashers audio docu-series turns south, tracing bi-coded and queer-coded lives across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas: Juan Gabriel's refusal to be labeled, Mário de Andrade's one surviving letter, Frida Kahlo in her own hand, Reinaldo Arenas writing his memoir from a hospital bed, and Marielle Franco, the Afro-Brazilian councilwoman whose murder didn't silence her. This trailer also confronts what and who is missing. Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Uruguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador: seven countries where almost no bi+ or queer Afro-Latino history survives on record, and why that silence is evidence, not absence. Hosted, researched, and written by Ross Victory apart of the Embracing All of Me, storytelling platform for bi+, queer, and BIPOC voices. No speculation, no erasure, just the archive followed to the end. New episodes dropping throughout Latinx Heritage Month. This is Volume 2. Catch up on Binary Bashers Volume 1, our original Black History Month 2026 series, wherever you listen. #BinaryBashers #Latinidad #LatinxHeritageMonth #BiVisibility #QueerHistory #AfroLatino #EmbracingAllOfMe #LGBTQPodcast

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History loves neat categories. We don't. Black or white. Saint or sinner. Hero or villain. Gay or straight. The people who shape culture often live somewhere in between. Communicator Award winner. International podcast award nominee, Diepodfluencer. Binary Bashers is a storytelling podcast about the artists, rebels, and cultural icons whose lives broke the labels the world tried to give them. Each episode follows one life, or a few connected ones, through the music, poems, paintings, letters, and relationships they left behind, with the cultural context that made them possible. The series centers bi+ history, the part of these stories most often skipped, flattened, or folded into something else. Host Ross Victory reads each figure through a bi-coded lens: finding documented attraction to more than one gender in their own words, art, and relationships, and translating that evidence for listeners today. The lens never assigns a label a person didn't claim. It shows what the record holds and lets them stay who they were. Every episode is made for anyone curious about culture, identity, and the lives behind famous names. If you've ever felt like you didn't fit a neat box, you'll find precedent here. If you just love a great story told well, you'll find that too. VOLUMES Binary Bashers: Volume 1 Black American history, from the Harlem Renaissance to today. Claude McKay, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Countee Cullen, June Jordan, Pauli Murray, Kuwasi Balagoon, Dr. Ibrahim Farajajé, and more. Binary Bashers: Latinidad (Volume 2) Latin American history across music, literature, art, and politics. Juan Gabriel, Alejandra Pizarnik, Frida Kahlo, and more. FOR EDUCATORS Episodes are fully sourced and built for classrooms, book clubs, and community groups. Suitable for listeners 16+. LEARN MORE What "bi-coded" means: embracingallofme.org/binary-bashers-bi-coded Series home: embracingallofme.org/binary-bashers Binary Bashers is researched, written, and narrated by Ross Victory and produced by Embracing All of Me, a storytelling platform for the multi, the complex, and the in-between.

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  • Creator
    Embracing All of Me
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
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