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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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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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Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops
Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.
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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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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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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: 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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A Beginner’s Guide to Establishing a Queer Houseplant Utopia
Look: you’re here, you’re queer; you deserve to live in a queer houseplant utopia. Here’s how to make your very own.
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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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Monday Roundtable: How Do We Live with Ourselves?
Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.
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This Queer House, Vol 8: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
In this month’s This Queer House, I’ll show you how to get your home ready for winter by keeping the warm air in and the cold air out with a DIY draft stopper, as well as a few other helpful tips.
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This Queer House, Vol 10: New Year, Newly Organized Queer House
It’s okay if your end result isn’t completely bare and minimal and perfect; the most important thing is feeling in control of the spaces you create.
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This Queer House, Vol 9: End of Year Mailbag
This month, we tackle reader-submitted questions and run through a step-by-step tutorial for rewiring a lamp.
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This Queer House, Vol 5: How to Patch Walls and Other Easy Moving Tips
If you’re moving this fall, one way to help ensure that you get a full security deposit back from your landlord or management company is to repair any obvious issues in the apartment.
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Helping You Help Yourself #50
Storing plastic grocery bags, saying no, broken appliances, mini scrapbooks, keeping your energy up in stressful times and more!
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This Queer House, Vol. 3: How to Recaulk Your Bathtub Before Crying In It
There are lessons to be learned here from my misfortune, probably, so this might end up reading more like a what not to do than a tutorial.
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Helping You Help Yourself #49
Some stretches for your wrist! How to tell if a crowdfunding project is a scam! Many thoughts on raising plants! How to photograph the MOON!
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This Queer House, Vol. 2: It’s Electric!
Get ready to dazzle friends and loved ones with a new dimmer switch that is sure to set the mood for any occasion.
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Helping You Help Yourself #47
DIY cat houses, how to avoid losing things, pigs can learn to scream, ditching bad Tinder dates and more!