Jan 31 2018231/31/18I Didn’t Go Home for Christmas Because I Was Ashamed About Being SuicidalAlexander Hardy59I just spent Christmas away from my family in Virginia for the first time.
Jan 11 201841/11/18Once Upon a Time, I Was the Guy in the Chuck E. Cheese CostumeAlexander Hardy47When I had enough of asking Mom and Dad for money to buy Taco Bell combos, CDs from Sam Goode and extra…
Nov 8 2017211/8/17Why the Sister Act 2 Soundtrack Was a Major Milestone of My Black-Ass ChildhoodAlexander Hardy8This week at VSB, we’re running a series called Albums That Changed My Life in which different writers let you in on…
Oct 26 20172210/26/17Please Stop Inviting Everybody to the Damn CookoutAlexander Hardy121Look, I know blackness is the gift that keeps on giving. I know how awesome we are, and can understand why sweet…
Aug 28 2017318/28/17How to Respond to White Folks Who Ask How They Can ‘Help’Alexander Hardy261It could all be so simple. Though eradicating racial hateration should be an intraracial undertaking, undoing…
Jul 13 2017Save7/13/17Have Your Heaven Now: What Lupus Taught Me About LifeAlexander Hardy387Lupus was part of my life story long before I gained firsthand experience as a young tenderoni. I've watched my…
Jul 11 2017Save7/11/17"Hot Peas & Butter" And More Slavery Merriment In VirginiaAlexander Hardy183Unlike many youngins I know today who’d implode from boredom and cluelessness without access to a tablet,…
May 31 2017Save5/31/17So I Just Became a Mental Health First Aid Instructor And Here Is What I LearnedAlexander Hardy188I can breathe now. After spending the past 13 months trying to get accepted and five days powering through a dense…
Apr 20 2017Save4/20/17That Time I Went to a Panamanian Restaurant and Almost Left BrokenheartedAlexander Hardy1.4KIn this age of foot-faced presidential swampdonkeys, culture vulturing ho-ass racial stowaways, and…
Jan 19 2017Save1/19/178 Thoughts After Finishing Bobby Brown’s Good But Messy-Ass MemoirAlexander Hardy501Over the weekend, I breezed through Bobby Brown's memoir, Every Little Step: My Story and it was quite the learning…
Oct 24 2016Save10/24/16Things To Consider When Starting TherapyAlexander Hardy237OK, so, look: I am not a mental-health professional yet. I am, however, starting my journey toward becoming…
May 25 2016Save5/25/16One Man's Quest To Find The Perfect Batch Of Mac And Cheese In New York CityAlexander Hardy472(I first read this cautionary tale last week at Colored Boy and Friends: Mental Health Edition in New York City with…
Mar 11 2016Save3/11/16Dancing The Blues Away: How Ballet Became My TherapyAlexander Hardy32A few weeks ago, I walked into Broadway Dance Center and bought a 10-class card, ending months of wanting and…
Jan 13 2016Save1/13/16I'm Reading James Baldwin For The First Time And I'm Falling In Love With His WorkAlexander Hardy35As a book-loving Black literary homothug who writes openly about life, sexuality, society, and the innumerable…
Dec 10 2015Save12/10/1514 Thoughts On The Wiz Live After Taking A Week To Fully Process Its BlackassnessAlexander Hardy2821. Black people are everything.
Dec 3 2015Save12/3/15The 5 Stages of MacBook Charger DeathAlexander Hardy114I realized the depths of my technological dependency when I first had the misfortune of watching the vibrancy and…
Nov 18 2015Save11/18/15What A Difference A Year Makes: On Battling And Beating DepressionAlexander Hardy236If I had moved to New York last fall as intended, you would be surely be referring to me in the past tense today.
Oct 29 2015Save10/29/15I Went To A Screening Of 'Underground' In Memphis And Here Is What I AteAlexander Hardy171Last week, I hopped in a time machine and moseyed on down to Memphis to partake in a screening of WGN’s upcoming…