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s In Eloghosa Osunde’s column Melting Clocks, she takes apart the surreality of time and the senses. Eloghosa Osunde, At the Beach in Your Dream, 2020, mixed media. If you really think about it, we were all raised inside a giant dictionary. Society as we know it is simply a collection of shared definitions. Who is normal? What is beauty? Who is a criminal? What is a woman? What is a man? What is good love? What is sex? What is fair? Who is holy? What is evil? The more you agree with the definitions you’ve been given, the more you...
2021 LGBTQ Books by Black Authors to Preorder (And 10 That Are Already Out)
Black LGBTQ books got a bump in June of 2020. With the George Floyd protests at their peak and Pride month still happening, lists of queer Black books to buy or preorder built up steam on social media. You Should See Me in a Crown, a Black YA F/F novel, was sold out everywhere. Unfortunately, this follows a pattern that Black and LGBTQ books often see: a peak during Black History Month or Pride month, but forgotten in between. Or, a hateful act will make the news, whether it’s police brutality or violent transphobia or a worrying new law, book...
Hidden storage in the kitchen island for, not one, but two foldable tables.
We built the house and used IKEA cabinets in the entire house — kitchen, baths, laundry. We liked that we could install them ourselves. Because we have an open format kitchen, we have no formal dining room. So, we decided to make hidden storage in the kitchen island to store two 5-foot tables to use when we have large number of guests. This whole kitchen is IKEA kitchen cabinets. For the island, we used metal brackets to extend the island for seating and cover up the box with IKEA cover panels. We used a small piano hinge for the door to...
Your laundry room may not be like your bathroom or kitchen, but it can get just as cluttered and messy if left to its own devices
Every laundry room deserves to look like an organized masterpiece. So, if you are ready to put the chaos away and remake your laundry room into a designer room that will leave all your guests jealous, then keep on reading. Kingston has five tips for you to organize your laundry room and keep it that way. Laundry Room Hooks Instead of dropping messy items or bags on the floor and creating more clutter, try investing in robe hooks to help out with the mess. That way, you can keep the messes off of the ground and keep the floors a...