Embracing All of Me

Oct 11, 2026 · 25m

Frida Kahlo is everywhere: on candles, sneakers, and a Barbie with softened brows. But how much of the woman can we still see? In this Binary Bashers: Latinidad episode, Ross looks beyond the icon to the rooms Frida entered and the stories told about her. From Diego Rivera’s double standard on his wife to Mary Reynolds’s care in Paris and letters to painter Jacqueline Lamba, the episode follows desire, evidence, and erasure. What gets lost when a bisexual Latina becomes a brand? Visibility is not the same as being understood.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.

Oct 6, 2026 · 19m

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 Through letters, diaries, and unpublished manuscripts, Ross Victory follows a bi-coded archive beyond the myth of the doomed poet, asking how literary acclaim and selective publications narrowed her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 → VoteIf 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.

Oct 4, 2026 · 28m

Embracing All of Me is a finalist in the 5th Annual Signal Awards Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category. We have a chance to win a Listerner's Choice Award. Vote now before October 15!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.

Sep 30, 2026 · 26m

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 AwardsGo to the Signal Awards voting websiteCreate an account or sign inSelect Individual EpisodeGo to Activism, Public Service, & Social ImpactFind “Beyond Binaries: A Black Bisexual Blueprint for Belonging & Survival” from Embracing All of MeTap VoteIf 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.

Sep 27, 2026 · 24m

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.

Sep 15, 2026 · 16m

Binary Bashers Vol. 2: Latinidad opens Latinx Heritage Month 2026 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, bi or queer possibility, and the freedom of being larger than any label.Tune in all Latinx Heritage Month for new episodes.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.

Sep 15, 2026 · 5m

BINARY BASHERS: LATINIDAD The Hidden Bi+ and Queer History of Black and Brown Latin AmericaFor Latinx Heritage Month 2026, Binary Bashers returns with its second volume: Latinidad, tracing bi-coded and queer-coded lives across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas, from Mexico to Brazil, and confronting the seven countries where the archive went silent by design.This volume follows the same rigorous, evidence-based bi-coded framework introduced in Volume 1, our Black History Month 2026 volume: no speculation, no retroactive labels, just documented lives followed as far as the record allows. Episodes trace Juan Gabriel's refusal to be labeled, Mário de Andrade's one surviving letter, Frida Kahlo in her own words, Reinaldo Arenas writing his memoir from a hospital bed, and Marielle Franco, the Afro-Brazilian councilwoman whose murder didn't silence her.The opening episode also names what's 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. We treat that silence as evidence, not absence.Hosted, researched, and written by Ross Victory. [New episodes drop all Latinx Heritage Month.Haven't caught Volume 1? https://pod.link/1887569381?view=apps&sort=popularity.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.Topics: Latinidad, Bi+ Visibility, Queer History, Afro-Latino, LGBTQ+ Podcast, Latinx History, Latine, Hispanic Heritage Month, Latino

Jul 7, 2026 · 46m

In this episode of Embracing All of Me, host Ross sits down with Figgy Baby, Neighborhood rap star. Global Spice Boi, themself, the internationally touring rapper, writer, performer, and self-described creator of “the soundtrack for the end of the world.” Figgy’s work moves between protest and pleasure, grief and bangers, Mexican identity and mixed-race ambiguity, gender play and cultural memory. Ross and Figgy chat about AI and artist exploitation, growing up in L.A., police encounters, ancestral lineage, queerness, masculinity, and the page as a place where freedom can arrive before the body is ready to live it.This conversation isn't only about music. It's about what artists carry, what communities survive, and what it means to build a "self" out of contradiction without asking permission. We get into:Growing up social, defiant, and shaped by service, From getting kicked out of class to working in food pantries and Planned Parenthood, Figgy traces how community, rebellion, and curiosity formed the artist before the bars.Mixed-race identity, police, and growing up in LA, being stopped by police, and how songs like “Shortcut,” “Mr. Baron,” and “Riot Gear” document the policing of young Brown bodies.Lineage, ancestors, and queer Latinx artistic inheritance: Ross and Figgy chat about the jacaranda tree and heart imagery on Mixed Race Mixtape, ancestral reckoning, Miguel Piñero, Chavela, John Leguizamo, and the rituals that keep a creative lineage alive.Gender, masculinity, and the oh so fearless bars. Figgy unpacks the line “Throw me in a dress, I’ll still lean like a cholo,” explaining how ambiguity became a superpower and how queerness, swagger, and cultural commitment can coexist. Figgy shares that they were “queer on the page” before being queer in real life, describing the page as their longest relationship and a place where vulnerability, truth, and future selves can be rehearsed.Figgy previews Where Did All the House Parties Go?, a project rooted in the reminder that joy is not a distraction from struggle. About Figgy Baby:Figgy Baby (also know as “Spice Boi”), is an internationally touring, non-binary Mexican music maker and rapper, based in Los Angeles. Their music highlights the fluidity and range of the human condition, redefining the limits of self-expression. With a mesmerizing stage presence, Figgy offers their audience a space to experience shameless joy. Figgy Baby’s work has been featured on BBC, BET, LA Times, Jubilee, MITÚ and NPR.Their projects include Mixed Race Mixtape, Summers in LA, Michael Sam, Spice Boi, Brainrot, Riot Gear, and the upcoming Where Did All the House Parties Go?Connect with Figgy Baby:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/figgybabyTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@figgybabyBandcamp: https://figgybaby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/figgybabyLearn More:Embracing All of Me is a storytelling and advocacy platform for the multi, complex, and in-between, uplifting the voices of BIPOC Bi+ & Queer folks, our kin, and friends.Website: https://embracingallofme.orgEmail: stories@embracingallofme.orgInstagram: @embracingallofmeeTake Action:Support Figgy Baby’s music and merch directly. Topics: Figgy Baby, Ross Victory, Embracing All of Me, queer Mexican rapper, mixed race identity, Latinx artist, queer Latinx music, non-binary artist, Los Angeles rap, political rap, AI and music, artist exploitation, Mixed Race Mixtape, Blood From a Stone, Spice Boi, Brainrot, Riot Gear, Where Did All the House Parties Go, ancestral reckoning, queer lineage, Mexican identity, masculinity, gender expression, police violence, ICE raids, protest music, bangers with a message, Bi+ people of color, queer artists of color, diaspora, embodiment, creative survival, chosen identity

Jul 5, 2026 · 5m

Ever felt like different versions of you show up in different rooms? Too much for one crowd, not quite enough for another? In this solo episode, Ross explores what it means to live as something layered and hard to categorize, and why bisexuality (as a lens) is just one of many ways to embrace being a contradictory, unfinished work in progress. If you've ever felt like you always find yourself sitting alone at a lunch table, this is your invitation to pull up a chair.