"Love was the foundation of everything for Frida. This bisexuality, this eroticism was fundamental to her character."

She’s on your ex-girlfriend’s tote bag, your niece’s notebook, and probably a few questionable dorm-room tapestries.

But behind the unibrow is a Frida Kahlo you don’t know: a bisexual, communist, pain-embracing rascal who painted from her gut and fucked whomstsoever she pleased.

This week, we’re peeling back the kitsch to get at the real Frida, with filmmaker Carla Gutierrez, director of the fabulous new documentary, Frida (now streaming on Prime).

We discuss:

• Little Frida the rascal—from classroom pranks and her muchacho wardrobe, to falling in love with everything that moved.
• The bus crash that made her body a battlefield and her art a visceral diary of pain
• Her toxic, electric, and surprisingly horny marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera (aka "Toad Face), until he went one boink too far...
• Frida's bisexual chaos: her lovers of all genders, from Chavela Vargas to Leon Trotsky, plus the lady lovers she painted boldly onto the canvas for all to see
• How Frida became less “artist” and more “branded merch” — and why she still matters as a queer revolutionary

So: grab your eyeliner and fill in that unibrow you've been growing out, because it's time to get freaky with Frida.

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Episode Credits

Written and hosted by Bash.

Edited by Alex Toskas.

Produced by Dani Henion.