Make a Gooey Thing Part 2: Gluten-Free Playdough!
Welcome to Make a Gooey Thing! In which I walk you through these weird substances I regularly make in my work with kids. Last time, we made Oobleck. Today, we’re making gluten-free playdough.
A lot of people think of playdough as the mushy stuff that comes in little plastic cans, that you can sculpt and smush and squish through plastic creatures to make hair. This is all true, but you can save…
Drawn to Comics: Catching up with Supercakes!
by rory midhani
One of the very first comics I covered here for Drawn to Comics was a lovely series of just a couple short stories by writer and illustrator Kat Leyh about May Ai and Molly (or Mo) LeMarck, a couple who also happen to be superheroes who fight crime by the names Tank and Shift. This series, called Supercakes, is now collected on its own website with even more stories than there…
“How many times do I have to repeat it? Feminism is a journey to lesbianism. Women’s Studies is a vehicle for that journey, as Carmen Rios is honest enough to admit.”
– Robert Stacey McCainThe undoubtedly delightful Robert Stacey McCain, esteemed conservative blogger for The Other McCain, had a really busy weekend reading the collected works and social media output of Autostraddle’s very own Car…
Robin Williams Is Dead at 63, This is a Feelings Atrium
Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams died in his home Monday, according to Marin County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office has not confirmed the cause of death but “suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia.”
A rep released this statement: “Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully…
101 Recipes for the Best Brunch In World History
compiled by Rachel and Hansen
Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited!…
‘G.R.I.T.S.’ is So Much More Than Food | Autostraddle
Humbled and stoked to have a quote pulled in an Autostraddle review of GRITS. Perhaps equally stoked to find out about this review through Twitter mentions.
Read A F*cking Book: ‘G.R.I.T.S.’ Is So Much More Than Food | Autostraddle.
If you consider yourself a feminist — or even if you don’t like the label but do like equality — the Health Equity and Accountability Act is a thing that you should care about.
Not familiar? Here’s the rundown:
- As you’re no doubt aware, per the patriarchy, the “default” population our society caters to is white men.
- When this pattern is repeated in medical research, we wind up with clinical…
More Than Words: 14 Ways The New York Times Has Hated On Brunch Since 1939
Brunch (as a word, if not a concept) was introduced to the masses in 1895 via a cheerful polemic called “Brunch: A Plea,” written for a British hunting magazine by a gentleman named Guy Beringer. Beringer, an early brunch adopter, urged his readersto abandon the traditional evening- and stomach-clogging Sunday dinner in favor of an earlier, more flexible spread: brunch is better for “Saturday…
Legendary Boxing Manager and Promoter Kellie Maloney Comes Out as a Trans Woman
Boxing is considered by many to be a great bastion of maleness and masculinity, but that wasn’t enough to stop Kellie Maloney from living the life she knew that she had to. In an exclusive interview with The Mirror, the legendary boxing manager and promoter came out and revealed that she has been undergoing hormone therapy and taking other steps in her transition for the past two years. At the…
Most Important Ugly: Massiel, Coco and Meta-Human Experiments
Okay, so we fell of the face of the earth for a good month there. I’m so sorry! By now, the exhibition in person is gone (and by gone, I mean in a tube in my closet) so this here website is the only place you’ll see it ever again. Savor that exclusivity. Mmmmmmm, privilege.
Anyway, here are the next two photos for you all. We’ve been really busy on other projects and I just kind of got too…
New Lesbian Emoji Instagram Account Has Come to Save Us All
Carmen’s Team Pick:When it comes to the classic emoji keyboard collection, there’s a couple things that are notably missing – more representations of people of color, anything resembling a popping bottle, and, well, lesbians. Luckily @lesbianemojis is here to save us all, sort of.
Designer Kimberly Linn showcases hilarious lesbian emojis – including fish tacos, Tegan & Sara albums, and a U-Haul…
I guess for me, there’s this thing of – after my own experiences when I was 19 and isolated and depressed and finding myself through the tarot and now twenty years later – using tarot as a tool with oppressed people and communities, and thinking of it as a way for us to collectively get clarity and figure out situations that are really painful and complicated, and just to cut through the bullshit. And so it really is this process of just deeply deeply listening and paying attention to what’s really going on. Because of course as oppressed people, a lot of the time we’re taught that our bodies and our intuition are not to be trusted and that we should just go work our jobs and do what the powers that be tell us to do, and so I really believe that it’s a deeply revolutionary act to work with our intuition and to work with what we know.
by Rory Midhani for Carmen’s awesomeRebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Leave bacon alone. Stop acting like bacon isn’t good enough by itself. Do you know what you’re doing to bacon’s confidence?!
Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual, Ellen Page and Laverne Cox Learn What A Purrito Is This Sunday Funday
Happy Sunday Funday, queermos! As I pack my succulent plant and a pair of slippers for my office in preparation for the hellish time of the week that is Monday, I’m gonna need some positive energy. So let’s do this thing!
Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual and Ellen Page Are Totally In Love, JKQueers that film together stick together. Like, really close together. And for the world to see.
