The OddBoddie Chronicles: confessions

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Reframing 2025: An Overshare

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Reframing 2025: An Overshare

Last year tried to murder me and I feel like I barely escaped with my life! But then, the morning of New Year's Eve, I sat down and zoomed out to put it in proper context. Prepare yourself for a level of vulnerability I don't think I've ever expressed here...

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Flaunt What You Got to Get What You Want

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Flaunt What You Got to Get What You Want

Ideal circumstances? Not at all, and I hope I never have to do this like this again. I've now paid my dues. But I cannot deny how much I love how we came together to meet this challenge, in a sustainable way. Because everything you will see me wearing in the video, I still have in my closet...

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It's The End of an Era

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Alexandria Boddie wears a crop top that says "WWGJD?"
Mid-February through mid-April of 2017 were the darkest days of my life. It was the deepest depression I’d ever experienced, and it came on the heels of a period of burnout. Every day it seemed like my life was getting worse and worse, and every solution I thought was The Answer made my material conditions worse. My chest felt like a bottomless pit, and I cried every day. I felt like I had nothing left to give… except...

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Why the "Good Girl" is Bad for Women

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Why the "Good Girl" is Bad for Women
OMG. When actress and model Rie Rasmussen says you're gorgeous, accept it! I was very honored to be introduced to her through a good friend - Rie was looking for women to feature for Broadly - Vice Media's newest vertical. It was a gorgeous afternoon, and I was feeling brave: this is the heaviest, and pudgiest I've ever been, and I don't care. And neither did she. 

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On Not Accommodating Other People's Insecurities and Being the Awkward Black Girl

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On Not Accommodating Other People's Insecurities and Being the Awkward Black Girl
I was doing a little beauty mini-shoot for Simone Digital, having fun and chit-chatting with Angel Jordan, the site's creator. Then, she asked me if I'd write a little bit about my life as an alt-ish black woman for her blog.

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