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Short biography: Alex Brown is a queer Black librarian, local historian, writer, and author. They are an Ignyte award winning and Hugo award nominated writer and critic who covers speculative fiction and young adult literature for Reactor Magazine, Locus Magazine, NPR Books, Reader’s Digest, and elsewhere. They also write on topics such as queerness, Black history, librarianship, and pop culture.
Medium biography: Alex Brown is a queer Black librarian, local historian, writer, and author of two books on the history of Napa County, California’s marginalized communities. They have a BA with honors in Anthropology and Sociology, a Master’s of Library and Information Science, and a Master’s in US History. They are an Ignyte award winning and Hugo award nominated writer and critic who covers speculative fiction and young adult literature for Reactor Magazine, Locus Magazine, NPR Books, Reader’s Digest, and elsewhere. They also write on topics such as queerness, Black history, librarianship, and pop culture.
Long biography: Alex Brown is
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Well friends, it’s here. My first book Hidden History of Napa Valley is out in the world. I’m so fucking proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it.
The beginnings of this book came out of my MA US History thesis on the Black history of Napa County entitled “There Are No Black People”: A History of African Americans in Napa County (excerpts from which can be found on the Napa County Historical Society blog). In turn, that thesis was inspired directly from my own existence as one of only a few hundred African Americans living in Napa in the 1980s-2000s. For most of my life in Napa, the only other Black people I interacted with on a daily basis were my mother and a few schoolmates. Growing up as a biracial Black girl in a predominately white region was difficult to say the least. Microaggressions were everywhere, although I was fortunate enough to not experience the overt racism some of my other Black friends did. This is not to say that Napa was an awful place to grow up (it very much wasn’t) or that it was more racist than other places (ag
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Hardcore punk
Aggressive and fast subgenre of punk rock
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rocksubgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock.[8] Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by Washington, D.C., and New York punk rock and early proto-punk.[1] Hardcore punk generally eschews commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock"[14] and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically charged lyrics".[15]
Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. Hardcore has spawned the straight edge mov
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