Have a Scrumptious Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are you as much as this weekend? My dad is visiting, and we’re going to our neighborhood block social gathering. The boys are psyched for the bouncy home, and I like seeing what everybody brings to the potluck dinner. We’re going with both thumbprint cookies or fancified Rice Krispie treats. Hope you could have a great one, and listed here are just a few hyperlinks from across the net…

As we speak’s the final day to enter to win our Cup of Jo NYC journey!

Everybody ought to put on completely large sun shades. “All style ought to make you say, ‘Hmm, appears silly. I like it.’ Sun shades most of all.” (NYMag)

Love the concept of taking lengthy walks and simply speaking to your self.

Oooh, the proper sweater for a hair tuck.

A dialog about family inequity. Says Anne Helen Petersen: “I do know so many cis-hetero {couples} the place guys go away for eight hours to go {golfing} each weekend; eight hours to go to a pal’s home or to go to an precise soccer recreation, each weekend. That could be a huge period of time that appears inconceivable to a number of girls in these hetero partnerships. I believe that males are like… Why would they need to change that? Why would they need to take that away? If all they need to do is simply get in a struggle each from time to time about it, that looks as if a small value to pay for having all of that freedom.”

“Who cares what I put on to high school drop off? Me.” Such a humorous, playful piece. (NYTimes present hyperlink)

Now THAT’S a inexperienced kitchen.

This brief movie is making fetch occur — in Yiddish.

On the subject of consuming problems, brown women don’t measure up. “I’m a South Asian lady who suffers from consuming problems. My battle with physique dysmorphia started after I was advised by my physician, at six years previous, that my BMI (physique mass index) was too excessive, and I used to be placed on the primary of many diets that may come to outline my life. Ever the overachiever and wanting to please my involved mother and father, I threw myself into controlling my weight… What I didn’t know at the moment was that these numbers have been reflective of white, Eurocentric requirements that by no means ought to have been utilized to me… Consuming dysfunction habits is so intently tied with whiteness and wealth, that for a lot of — together with many ladies of coloration — the depictions of it may be unintentionally aspirational.” (Elle)

The hair pattern that millennial and boomers agree on. *raises hand*

Digging this horny underwear.

“The faces that look again at us after we come out as queer.” What a tremendous interactive article. (NYTimes present hyperlink)

Plus, 5 reader feedback:

Says Sarah on how one can say goodbye at a celebration: “I apply the Midwestern goodbye. When sitting, slap your lap with each palms, say, ‘Welp!’, then rise up and head out the door.”

Says Tina on how one can say goodbye at a celebration: “Ever do an Italian household goodbye? Limitless hugs, kisses, questions on being hungry, being pressured to take leftovers, getting sucked into having one final piece of/plate of… It’s limitless! The perfect/worst is that we are going to doubtless see them TOMORROW!”

Says Ruth on how one can say goodbye at a celebration: “My social gathering vibe as a Jew is: ‘What social gathering? We’re all dwelling collectively on this tent within the desert full time. Why would you need to go away? Particularly since Aunt Rachel’s cake is simply coming off the hearth!’ I can not go away a celebration. Please don’t make me.”

Says Nigerian Lady on 10 single mothers by selection share their experiences: “I simply listened to the newest episode of the podcast Archetypes, the place Mindy Kaling talks about changing into a single mom by selection. We stay in such a judgmental world, so I salute each lady who’s courageous sufficient to make this selection.”

Says Eliz on who’s your movie star crush: “Bernie Sanders. Examine him out as a younger hottie, y’all…”

(Cookie photograph and recipe by Yossy Arefi/Instagram.)