Binary Bashers: Volume I challenges the idea that Black U.S. and global majority histories must be singular or easily categorized to be valid or recognized. Binary Bashers restores depth to these legacies by tracing how desire, relationships, embodiment, and social life have long moved beyond colonial, heteronormative, and monosexual frameworks. Rather than imposing modern identity labels, it excavates and reads archives, creative work, and community memory to understand how complex ways of living were expressed and recognized in their own time.

Binary Bashers: Volume II Latinidad challenges the idea that Latin American and Latinx diaspora histories must be singular or easily categorized to be valid or recognized. Moving from Mexico and Brazil to Argentina, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, and New York’s Lower East Side, Volume II restores depth to these legacies by tracing how desire, relationships, embodiment, and social life have long moved beyond colonial, heteronormative, and monosexual frameworks, and beyond the codes of machismo that enforced them. Rather than imposing modern identity labels, it reads archives, creative work, and community memory in Spanish, Portuguese, and Spanglish to understand how complex ways of living were expressed, withheld, and recognized in their own time.