BINARY BASHERS
History loves neat categories. We don’t.Black or white. Saint or sinner. Hero or villain. Gay or straight.
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Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Borderlands of Gloria Anzaldúa (opens the original)
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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
Vol. 2 Latinidad - The Life and Defiance of Juan Gabriel (opens the original)
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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 belong
Binary Bashers: Latinidad - Who Was Allowed to Be Written Down (opens the original)
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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 Kahl
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