Potions Class is in Session: Five Healing Drinks You Can Make at Home
Unlike most medicines, these drinks taste great, and they can all be made easily with common ingredients and kitchen equipment. Let’s get started!
Witch Hunt: The Vernal Equinox Makes Everything New Again
A playlist for curing a broken heart, thoughts from a witch who watched The Witch, a celebration from the Witch in Into the Woods, a rumination on rituals, a new original illustration from Molly Ostertag, and so much more magical goodness awaits you inside.
Soggy Bottoms: How I Mastered The Fine Art of Making English Muffins
Six weeks and ten batches after my initial muffin-making attempt, I have developed a reasonably passable English muffin recipe that would probably land somewhere around the middle of the pack in an early-season Great British Bake Off technical challenge.
50 Recipes That Use Five Ingredients Or Less
Sometimes it’s nice to put the joy back into cooking (or convince yourself to start cooking in the first place) with simple, straightforward — but still exciting — recipes.
Sunday Funday Celebrates President Obama and Justin Trudeau Celebrating Your Gay Marriage
Jillian Michaels gets engaged, the SCOTUS stands up for gay adoption, Iga in Japan sees your same-sex partnership as equal to any other partnership, Obama and Justin Trudeau share the love and celebrate the gay marriages they have in common, and a RACCOON.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is In Your Pants
Who messages first, taking all your activity partners out for brunch, what orgasms do to your brain, the key to better communication and more.
Technology for Writers of Theses and Other Long-Form Soul Killers
I feel chaotic and disorganized and tired literally all the time. And I wondered, is there a better way to do this? Is there a better way to make my technology help me do this?
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Sir
“I’ve been waiting months for patio season.”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: Betty McRae and Sara Lance Finally Make Out on “Legends of Tomorrow”
Ali Liebert arrives in style on Legends of Tomorrow, Honey and Jessica go back to the Denim Turtle on Fresh off the Boat, and Eve invites Annalise to run away with her (again).
Hypothetically, If Queen Latifah Dated Women, She Wouldn’t Be Dating One Right Now
Even if this WERE true, it wouldn’t even be a thing anymore, so don’t even worry about it.
Let Us Speculate About the New Tegan and Sara Album, “Love You to Death”
I can only conclude that this album will be songs from their previous records, rewritten to be about how they love Sara’s cats – Holiday and Mickey – to death.
Things I Read That I Love #197: Her Lips Were a Pleasure To Receive A Beer Bottle From
Topics include Debi Thomas, the Mall of America, murder, kids on the sex offender registry, Trader Joe’s, what people smell like, Texts From Jane Eyre and more!
The Comment Awards Prefer Ice Cream Cake, Corner Piece Please
It’s Autostraddle’s birthday this week and your comments are a gift.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: It’s Not Like Pitch Perfect, I Swear
it is currently 80°, I am on Spring Break, my cats are napping in the sun, I’m drinking honey lavender lemonade, and I can hear small children playing outside at the home daycare next door to my house. Get in here and talk to me about it!
I Still Don’t Get The Cat Thing: Some Internet Haikus
curious to know
how many other people
fav’d their gyno’s tweet
Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal Makes Missouri History Attempting to Filibuster Anti-LGBT Bill
A heroic attempt to filibuster for LGBT rights in Missouri, lots of new data from police violence to environmentalism, a terrifying transphobic Tennessee law, and more.
23 Excerpts From Carolyn’s Diary, 2015–2016
“Sometimes it is hard to be chill and not proposition everyone constantly.”
Grandma’s House on Memory Lane
“As an adult, I wrestle with the stupid irony of having watched my grandmother live out her Alzheimer’s and not remembering anything about it.”
Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
Liquor In The Liquor: My Favorite Cocktail, The Sazerac
The Sazerac isn’t for the faint of heart, because really it is only liquor (including that green fairy, absinthe).