Binary Bashers is an original audio documentary series by Embracing All of Me, launching February 3, 2026, for Black History Month.

The series centers Black historical figures whose lives moved beyond rigid, self-limiting social binaries, revealing how race, desire, identity, creativity, and survival have always existed in layered, expansive, and unfinished ways. Binary Bashers uncovers resilience not as perfection, but as proof of life lived between definitions.

This is not a revision of history or retroactive label assignment. It’s a restoration of its complexity with updated language and understanding.

Series features:

• Claude McKay

• Alice Dunbar-Nelson

• Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson

• June Jordan

• Ibrahim Farajajé

• Ma Rainey

• Frances Thompson

• Countee Cullen

• Pauli Murray

• Kuwasi Balagoon

• Frances Thompson

Each episode invites listeners to witness how power, beauty, faith, artistry, and resistance emerge when people aren’t simplified, and recognized for who and what they are.

Follow Embracing All of Me and don’t miss an episode of Binary Bashers, and the stories that have always lived between the lines.

https://embracingallofme.org/binary-bashers/

In this special holiday episode and season finale of Embracing All of Me, a rare and intimate conversation brings together bisexual, fluid, and queer fathers to reflect on family, identity, and what it means to raise children while embracing their full selves.

Frank, Keaton, Mark, Gattison, and Brian, fathers with children across different ages and stages, weigh in from a wide range of lived realities.

Among them are dads who are married, co-parenting, polyamorous, partnered with same-sex and different-sex partners, and navigating family life in ways that don’t always fit dominant cultural scripts.

Together, they explore:

• ​What fatherhood has taught them about love, vulnerability, and masculinity
• ​How Bi/Queer identity shows up (or doesn’t) in parenting and family life
• ​Navigating holidays, family gatherings, and cultural expectations
• ​When and how they've spoken to children about identity, relationships, and difference
• ​The pressures queer dads face — and the freedoms they create
• ​How living between identities can foster empathy, imagination, and emotional intelligence in children

What emerges is a powerful reminder that bisexual fathers and queer dads at large are not only real, but uniquely positioned to model expansive forms of love, family, and belonging.

Bisexual father research study referenced in the conversation is available here

On this episode of Embracing All of Me, Ross sits down with psychotherapist and death worker Stevie Luna Ibarra (they/she) to explore how grief takes shape inside queer people of color, especially during the holidays.

Together, they unpack what happens when colonization, silence, identity, and family dynamics collide at the exact moment we need grounding the most.

Stevie brings over 13 years of experience in mental health, end-of-life support, and community grief work. They break down the window of tolerance, explain what death doulas really do, and offer practical rituals for staying regulated when our families don’t have language for who we are—or for what we’ve lost.

This episode is for anyone navigating complicated family systems, ancestral grief, the heaviness of the season, or the quiet ache of becoming. It’s also a reminder that grief isn’t just sorrow; it’s love, memory, transformation, and the human capacity to come home to ourselves again and again.

If you’ve ever felt alone in your grief, this conversation is a soft landing place.

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