Results for: be the change
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Silk Pillowcases Changed My Life, Made My Self-Made MILF Dreams Come True
If you, too, want MILFy vibes without having to have children, I highly, highly recommend a silk pillowcase!
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How To Do Fall in Florida (Or Any Other Seasonless, Hot Place)
Making seasonal change in a place where the seasons shift subtly or not at all.
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Queer Design 102: Figuring Out What Your Space Needs
Even if you don’t have the budget or permission to do full-scale renovations, there are so many small tweaks and adjustments you can make that will still create substantial change.
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Be Part of Autostraddle’s Spaces & Places Gallery!
Show us your favorite corner or room of your space. How did you put it together? Where did the pieces come from? Why do you love it? Share photos of your space and we’ll post them in a big gallery post, so that you can find inspiration and also share what you love!
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Making Accessibility Part of My Home
Because the thing is, of course, that my feelings about all the accessibility stuff aren’t really about the stuff at all; my feelings are about the disabilities themselves.
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So I Bought the Gay Green Couch
The instructions for putting this couch together stated in bold print “this is a two-person job! don’t try and do it by yourself!” and I said, “I’m a dyke” and proceeded to try and put it together by myself.
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Notes for a Queer Homemaker: When Company Comes Over
Hopefully these tips make hosting feel more accessible to more people (although, please heed the guidelines of your local health authorities right now about hosting because Miss Omicron is truly everywhere).
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Editor’s Notes: On Spaces & Places
The ways that we allow ourselves to take up space, to make our homes comfortable and reflective of who we are, are gifts that we give to ourselves.
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My Gender is Maximalism
As these queer and trans bodies took up space on my walls, my queer and trans body felt free to take up space in the home itself.
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Queer Design 101: Figuring Out Your Personal Design Style
When I found myself facing the blank walls of my new room, I had a minor moment of panic. Has the same thing happened to you?
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Queer Design 104: Putting It All Together
Sometimes even when it feels like everything in a space should work, something still feels off. And if that’s the case, there are a few things that you can try to get your reality to align with your vision.
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Spaces & Places Community Gallery
As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!
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I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place
On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.
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Lez Try It: Flower Arranging á la “Imagine Me and You”
there’s a lot of talk in the film about what different flowers mean, as Luce is repeatedly confronted by emotionally unstable customers demanding the perfect flowers for very specific occasions. I was intrigued. Could I make my own bouquet and send it to somebody? Is this something I could do from the safety of my own home, because there is still a slow-burning apocalypse going on outside? Turns out the answer to these questions was yes.
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: What You Need to Do as Spring Turns Into Summer
The moral of our queer tale in our gardens is the same as it is our lives: just keep fucking planting until something survives.
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How to Move During a Pandemic
Moving during a pandemic is hard, but you can do it and we’re here to tell you how! We love you! Be safe!! WEAR A MASK!!!!!
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The Queer Gardener’s Almanac: Winter
Autostraddle’s giant survey last year showed that queers will make the most of even the tiniest outdoor patches they can get their green-fingered mitts on. It’s time we celebrated the wide open spaces of our rural and suburban queers too, imagining the possibilities for the expanses we inhabit today or dream about tomorrow.
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What Kind of Houseplant You Should Get Depending On Your Flavor of Lesbianism
Do you vacillate between extreme distance, and then merging/clinginess/overdoing it? Then watch out. Succulents like consistent LACK of attention.
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13 Easy Houseplants for Seasonally Depressed Gays and Their Cats
Will these plants solve real mental health issues? Absolutely not, but they might make you feel more alive for the next few months, and also your cat can gnaw on them to its heart’s content, the asshole.
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For Your Consideration: Throwing a Highly Specific Themed Party For No Particular Reason
Here’s a secret: The best parties actually have no occasion attached (sometimes the occasion is that you feel dead inside).