Notes for a Queer Homemaker: States of Being, Not Moral Designations
I want you to be the best housekeeper you can be. And if and when you can’t, I want you to know more than anything, that you’re still a good person.
Show Me Your 2022 Vision Board!
Grappling with life’s big questions — in the middle of a never-ending pandemic — is a lot less intimidating when you’re cutting out photos of Viola Davis at the same time.
35 Cats to Follow on Twitter in 2022
Social media is bad. Cats are good!
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).
Quiz: What Cozy Season Soup Should You Make?
Not sure what’s for dinner? Take this quiz to find out what cozy season soup you should make — featuring vegetarian and vegan recipes with lots of options for substitutions!
Notes for a Queer Homemaker: Tips From Someone Who Loves You
Many of us are getting into the season of hosting and cleaning that comes with the holidays, and I hope that this makes preparing for company feel a little easier and brings a little order to what can sometimes feel like an unhinged time of year.
Wild Cravings: Chicken Salad, Shrimp, and Soup
For my final (for now) installment of Wild Cravings, I leave you with three food memories set in Virginia, Norway, and New York.
Wild Cravings: The Lonely Cheeseburger
When I think of that time and place, those seven months in a Lakeview walkup, I think of those cheeseburgers, and I think of that friendship. Neither are really in my life anymore.
7 Kitchen Gadgets For Lazy Cooks Who Crave Home Cooked Meals
I hate cooking, but I love to eat!
9 Holes in My Haunted House, Ranked by Lesbianism
This hole has the lesbian energy of the film “Bound.”
Wild Cravings: Memory Soup
For over two years, I’ve been searching for soup. A specific soup. A watercress soup I ate maybe a handful of times spread out over a handful of weeks in the spring of 2015.
Notes for a Queer Homemaker: Spells and Potions
You aren’t just cleaning your space, you’re making a world where you feel like you can breathe deeply and be your whole self. Put some love into it.
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.
Cereal Mascots, Ranked by Lesbianism
“Okay this Cheerios bee is a lesbian, but I’d be worried if any of my friends were dating them.”
Notes for a Queer Homemaker: Polishing Silver and Panoptical Perches
This year, we’re releasing things that have held us back, things like heteronormative ideas about homemaking and domesticity.
Put On Your Bra-ssicas: You Can Still Plant Vegetables Now for the Fall! Here’s 14 to Try!
Did you know that some vegetables actually taste better after a frost? Here’re some fall gardening tips and what you can still plant in August and September and enjoy this very fall. It is in fact, not too late to have a vegetable garden this year, my busy queers.
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.
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!
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.
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.