BINARY BASHERS

About BINARY BASHERS

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.

Publisher

Embracing All of Me

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Mar 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   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 (mailto: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 (https://embracingallofme.org).

2. 

   11 Oct 2026

   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 (https://embracingallofme.org).

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   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 (https://vote.signalaward.com/publicvoting/?utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistannouncement_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_campaign=signa5_entrant_finalistnotification_092926&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2026/individual-episodes/genre/activism-public-service-social-impact) → 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 (mailto: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 (https://embracingallofme.org).

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