Kitchen Cabinet Nail Treatments From Nail Transphobia’s Charlie Craggs
Charlie Craggs shares simple at-home remedies for brittle nails, dry hands, fungus, and more.
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Make Your Own Kickass Block Printed Patch
A patch that you’ve made and sewn on yourself — especially if it’s sewn with dental floss — is a badge of honor professing your ideals, feels, and crew.
You Need Help: How to Break In Your New Wedding Shoes
Cobbler-free tricks for softening your shoes, and saving your soles.
This Queer House, Vol. 4: Easy Wood Restoration
This is not a full restoration. I did not sand everything down and start from scratch. What we’re doing here is more like restoration-lite, but it should be enough to salvage a Craigslist (or yard sale or attic) find nine times out of ten.
Summer Project: Sew Your Own Gender-Affirming Swimwear!
With a sewing machine and a little patience, you can make a swimsuit to fit both your gender and your body.
A Simple Self-Massage Regimen from Radical Being Bodywork’s Deb Malkin
Your lower back or hip discomfort is a literal pain in the butt. Here’s a simple way to feel better.
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.
4 Dapper Plus-Size Sewing Projects for Beginners and Pros
Tips for sewing dapper garments to fit your curvy, busty or plus-size body, at any level of sewing know-how.
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.
This Queer House: Outfitting Your Toolbox, Hanging Pictures Properly
Just take your time, measure early and often, trust your instincts, and you’ll be a pro at hanging stuff in no time.
Be The Change: 5 Tips to Plan a Damn Good Activist Meeting
How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.
Be The Change: How to Make a Mind Map for Activism
This mind map exercise will help activists create achievable goals to avoid burnout.
How to Make People With December Birthdays Feel Special
If you’ve got a non-December birthday, then listen up — you’ve got it made! Your birthday is not eclipsed by holiday cheer, capitalism, Santa and Jesus. So why don’t you help make our neglected birthday special?
Make an Advent Calendar Using a Stick and Some Paper Sacks (and Other Things)
You could spend your afternoon making an advent calendar on this very first day of December!
Avoiding Inspiration Porn in This Time of Constant Vigilance
Mark my words: Donald Trump will talk a great game about our “amazing bravery” as he gets to work stealing our healthcare. The man knows how to throw out a red herring, and we all need to be ready for this one.
Be Your Best Self(ie): Tips From Our Faces To Yours
It’s important to see people who deserve to be celebrated — especially queer people and POC — using selfies to celebrate another day for themselves. We want to see your face out there, so we’ve put together some advice to help you be your best self(ie).
8 Ways to Spring Clean for Your Mental Health
It’s not just about making your home space spiffy, it’s about doing things that are going to make you feel good on the inside after winter has beaten you into a sad, unmotivated pulp.
Be Your Best Self, With or Without Filters, and Make Instagram Your New Favorite Dating App
Figuring out how to use digital spaces is as powerful as living your best queer life, with certainty.
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.
How To Up Your Holigay Card Game
“Please don’t use that cute selfie from your road trip, a photo from Pride where you think you look hard, or that funny photo you took one time. Grandma won’t put that on her fridge. “