So You’re Allergic To Cats?
Some strategies to make sure your cat allergy doesn’t come between you and the cats in your life.
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Sew You Want to Learn to Sew: Fabric, Patterns, and Resources, Oh My!
What kind of fabric should you use? Where do you get it? What about a pattern? Get all your answers here!
Sew You Want to Learn to Sew: All About Sewing Machines
Ready to start sewing? You’re gonna need one of these — let’s figure out what you should be looking for.
This Is How We Do It: Knife Skills Are Life Skills
If you want to be Top Chef of your kitchen, you’re going to need a good knife, and the knife skills to go with it. You’ll be whipping up finely-chopped feasts in no time.
This Is How We Do It: Refinishing a Table
Everything you’ll need to find a table on craigslist and refinish it so it looks even better than the day it was made.
How To Be A Girl Who Dates Girls: Your Syllabus For Lesbian Dating 101
How to pick up chicks, how to escape your terrible date, how to handle rejection, how to effectively fight with your girlfriend — we’ve got so much advice for y’all.
Rebel Girls: Mapping Power, Privilege, and Oppression
In which we learn about matrices, intersectionality, and why oppression only works in one direction.
Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
In which we learn about the basics of privilege, oppression, and what they have to do with each other.
Five Things You Should Know About Your Agender Acquaintance
This will be familiar territory for many of you (and that’s great!), but for anyone who isn’t as well-versed, let the learning begin!
UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: What Austerity and the Far Right Mean For Queers
With austerity here to stay and far-right parties on the rise, it is time now more than ever to recognise that queer liberation cannot be disentangled from economic justice.
UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: 2013 Was A Real Banner Year for Colonially-Influenced Homophobia in the Commonwealth
From India to Uganda, the legacy of British colonial sodomy laws live on today in many countries around the world. What can or should the Commonwealth do about this, if anything at all?
UK LGBT Politics Crash Course: One Same-Sex Wedding Ring to Rule Them All
2013 brought equal marriage to the shores of the UK, and the gays were saved! Well not really. Or not much at all?
Halloween Face Painting 101: The Six Step Butterfly
Short on time to pre-plan your Halloween costume? Face paint is a fun, fast alternative to actually making a real costume.
CDC Warns That Oral Sex Is Still Risky: How Queers Who Like Vaginas Can Keep Them Safe
Safer oral sex is healthier, sexier, and is likely to improve the quality of your life in general.
Family Business: How To Break Up With Your Ex’s Family, Too
You were never just dating a cute woman. You were dating a cute woman who is also someone’s daughter, granddaughter, bubeleh, mija, etc.
You Need Help: How To Navigate a Social Event with Your Ex
You and your ex are going to the same social event? You should probs read this first.
The Autostraddle Guide to Adopting Your Furry Best Friend: Dog Edition
Because every lesbian needs a lesbian familiar. Because your furry best friend is already out there and waiting for you. Because puppies.
Texting Your Ex-Girlfriend in Five Easy Steps
I’m helping you put the EX back in TEXT
Having Fun at a Gay Bar 101: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
At some point, between the night where my friend walked to her ex’s house with my keys, phone and money in her boot, the night where I sobbed to strangers about losing my credit card in the bathroom and the one where I held my friend’s hair as she vomited onto the street, I realized “Oh shit, this sucks.”
Holigay Gift Guide: Secret Santa 101, The Art of Anonymous Gifting
As someone who has been on the receiving end of terrible Secret Santa gifts for almost a decade, I feel somewhat qualified to offer up some gift ideas and advise you on Secret Santa gift etiquette.