Embracing All of Me

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 rel...

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,” w...

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...

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 presti...

BINARY BASHERS: LATINIDAD The Hidden Bi+ and Queer History of Black and Brown Latin America For 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 s...

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....

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...

Who gets taught the rules of the game when it comes to money, and who gets left to figure them out alone? In this episode of Embracing All of Me, Ross sits down with Latina financial coach Kelly Zúñiga to unpack the inherited money stories shaping how we move through the world. For first-generation professionals, Latinas, creatives, and communities of color, money is rarely about numbers alone. It...

This week, host Ross speaks with Dr. Zori Paul , a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, researcher, and board member of the Bisexual Resource Center. As a Black bi+ woman, Dr. Zori brings personal insight and professional rigor to a conversation about the mental wellbeing of Bi+, queer, pansexual, fluid, and questioning people of color, and the conditions that allow communities to...

Korean-American Artist Sam Kim "Babo," now "Samathan" on Diaspora, Hip-Hop, Bisexual Identity & Creative Survival What does it mean to be seen, fully, when you exist in fragments, when every room you enter asks you to choose which part of yourself to bring? In this episode of Embracing All of Me , Ross sits down with Sam Kim known as Babo and Samathan , Korean-American artist and creator, for...

What does it mean to love your child without asking them to become smaller, safer, or more familiar for your comfort? In this episode of Embracing All of Me , host Ross Victory speaks with Kristina Campos, educator, parenting advocate, mother of four, and founder of The Impactful Parent, about raising teenagers with connection, compassion, and the freedom to become themselves. Drawing from more th...

What happens when the voice you were once told was “too much” becomes the very thing that saves you? In this episode of Embracing All of Me, Ross sits down with Prince Domo, a Black bisexual rapper and multidisciplinary creative whose path into music began with color pencils, cartoons, orchestra, theater, poetry, and a lifelong desire to be seen fully, not flattened, dismissed, or made more palata...

Remembering Claude B. Victory, Jr. & Jason Paul Victory Nine years ago, my dad, Claude Bert Victory Jr., died of prostate cancer. Some days, that feels like a really long time ago. Other days, I can close my eyes and see his face and hear his laugh, or his presence so clearly that it feels like no time has passed at all. When in reality, a lot of him flows through me. In this Monologue solo ep...

What happens when the thing that makes you feel most alive is also the thing you are most afraid to release into the world? In this episode of Embracing All of Me, host Ross sits down with Georgia-born artist Josueños for a layered conversation about music, faith, identity, healing, and the long process of stepping fully into your creative purpose. Formerly known as J. Rican, Josueños reflects on...

Health Equity Researcher Shane Lamba on Bisexual South Asian Identity, the DL, & Living in the In-Between What does it mean to exist in the in-between, culturally, sexually, professionally, and still choose to show up fully, refusing to collapse yourself into someone else's framework? In this episode of Embracing All of Me , Ross sits down with Shane Lamba , health equity researcher, progr...

Writer & EMT Isaac Grijalva on 6½ Days in the City , Bisexual Identity & Self-Publishing Secrets What does it mean to tell your story when you're still becoming, when the shape of who you are hasn't fully settled, but the need to write it down refuses to wait? In this episode of Embracing All of Me , Ross sits down with Isaac Grijalva , writer, EMT, and author of 6½ Days in the City , to explore i...

What does it mean to truly embrace a fluid identity in a world that demands certainty? And why does bisexual visibility so often arrive without the protection it promises? In this episode, Aurelio Castro, bi+ activist, researcher, and co-organizer of Italy's first bi+ Pride, joins Embracing All of Me to unpack the lived realities of bisexuality: not just as attraction, but as a cultural lens a...

Polyamory. Ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Open relationships. The language is everywhere, but what do these terms actually mean, and how do you know which one fits? In this episode, Kelvin Pace , AASECT-certified sex therapist and owner of Selva Sexual Wellness, breaks down the difference between polyamory, ENM, swinging, and open relationships. More than definitions, Kelvin reframes the conversation...

Season 3 of Embracing All of Me launches May 5 with a deeper exploration of identity, truth, and what it means to live (and potentially thrive) beyond rigid labels. This season, host Ross Victory sits down with Bi+ and queer artists, dancers, writers, and creatives to unpack the layered realities of self-expression, relationships, and belonging. From polyamory and expansive relationship models to...

BINARY BASHERS is moving to it's own page! Check out the new bonus episode "The Grandpa You Wish You Had - ABilly S. Jones-Hennin." Follow Binary Bashers directly for more. In this episode, Ross opens with a moment that stopped him mid-commute, two women yelling "you gay" from a passing car and unpacks why four seconds in traffic sent him back thirty years. What starts as a...

In this reflective episode of Embracing All of Me, we step back from the Binary Bashers series to talk about why it was created in the first place...for that person searching at 2:17 AM. This conversation explores what it means to grow up searching for proof that people like you exist, and how storytelling can become a form of bisexuality support, community building, and healing. Centering the exp...

In the ruins of post–Civil War Memphis, Frances Thompson lived her womanhood in public despite escalating danger. A formerly enslaved Black trans woman, she survived the white supremacist violence of the 1866 Memphis Riots and testified before Congress, placing her voice into the national archive at a time when Black women were rarely heard. Later arrested under laws policing gender nonconformity,...

Born Donald Weems, Kuwasi Balagoon forged himself in the crucible of rebellion. A veteran of the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation Army, Balagoon’s life traced the fault lines of 1970s America, state violence, political imprisonment, and the unfinished work of liberation. He survived the uprising at Attica Correctional Facility, endured years in solitary confinement, and wrote fie...

In the glittering salons of interwar Europe, where royalty mingled with film stars and empire still shaped the social order, Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson moved with effortless grace. Born in Grenada and rising to prominence in London, Hutch became one of the most celebrated cabaret singers of the 1920s and 30s. His rumored romances with aristocrats and public figures unsettled rigid racial and sexual...

Born into the churn of Reconstruction-era Georgia, Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett, carved a voice that refused silence. Long before the blues was archived, categorized, or commercialized, Rainey lived it, on tent-show stages, in juke joints, and in a life that unsettled respectability politics. Known as the “Mother of the Blues,” she sang openly of desire, migration, and survival, leaving lyric...