I just spent Christmas away from my family in Virginia for the first time.
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Alexander Hardy
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Alexander Hardy is a wordsmith, mental health advocate, dancer, lupus survivor, and co-host of The Extraordinary Negroes podcast. Alexander does not believe in snow or Delaware.
When I had enough of asking Mom and Dad for money to buy Taco Bell combos, CDs from Sam Goode and extra…
This week at VSB, we’re running a series called Albums That Changed My Life in which different writers let you in on…
Look, I know blackness is the gift that keeps on giving. I know how awesome we are, and can understand why sweet…
It could all be so simple. Though eradicating racial hateration should be an intraracial undertaking, undoing…
Lupus was part of my life story long before I gained firsthand experience as a young tenderoni. I've watched my…
Unlike many youngins I know today who’d implode from boredom and cluelessness without access to a tablet,…
I can breathe now. After spending the past 13 months trying to get accepted and five days powering through a dense…
In this age of foot-faced presidential swampdonkeys, culture vulturing ho-ass racial stowaways, and…
Over the weekend, I breezed through Bobby Brown's memoir, Every Little Step: My Story and it was quite the learning…
Remember that time a foot-faced, soul-sucking gargoyle became a beacon of hope for previously shamed racist…
OK, so, look: I am not a mental-health professional yet. I am, however, starting my journey toward becoming…
(I first read this cautionary tale last week at Colored Boy and Friends: Mental Health Edition in New York City with…
A few weeks ago, I walked into Broadway Dance Center and bought a 10-class card, ending months of wanting and…
As a book-loving Black literary homothug who writes openly about life, sexuality, society, and the innumerable…
Do you remember that mobile home showdown in Kill Bill, when Beatrix plucks out Elle’s remaining good eye, sending…
1. Black people are everything.
I realized the depths of my technological dependency when I first had the misfortune of watching the vibrancy and…
If I had moved to New York last fall as intended, you would be surely be referring to me in the past tense today.
Last week, I hopped in a time machine and moseyed on down to Memphis to partake in a screening of WGN’s upcoming…