BINARY BASHERS

History loves neat categories. We don’t.Black or white. Saint or sinner. Hero or villain. Gay or straight. The folks who shape culture often exist somewhere in between.Binary Bashers is a storytelling podcast about the artists, rebels, and cultural icons whose lives shattered the simple labels society tried to impose on them. Through vivid stories and cultural context, the series explores the fascinating, complicated lives of people who were never easily defined through their work or their being, and reveals why identity has always been bigger than the boxes society creates and the language of the time.

BINARY BASHERS is a history podcast hosted by Embracing All of Me, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Embracing All of Me hosts BINARY BASHERS, a history show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

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

  Oct 4, 202629 minS2

  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 .

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

  Sep 30, 202626 min

  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.

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

  Sep 27, 202624 minS2

  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 .

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

  Sep 15, 202616 minS2

  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.

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

  Sep 15, 20266 minS2

  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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