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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In this episode of Embracing All of Me, Ross sits down with MARQUE, a Bronx-born, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and dancer, to explore how dance, music, and creativity shape identity, healing, and self-expression.

Together, they talk about growing up surrounded by rhythm, dance as a first language, and how performance and people-pleasing can become survival skills. One key takeaway from this conversation: sometimes the body learns how to survive before the mind ever catches up—and movement can be the bridge back to self.

This episode is for creatives, dancers, music artists, queer men, and anyone learning how to soften without losing their edge.

Check out Marque in the band ONQUE here

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Read about MARQUE's Savage collaboration with Ross on The Source Magazine

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