Mary Elizabeth Williams

1 week ago | salon.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

I genuinely feel for younger people, who will never have the pleasure of experiencing the unproblematic version of Rowling and her novels. For millennials and Gen Z kids like mine, there was once a golden era when you could just daydream all day about getting your invitation to Hogwarts without any associations with a full-time transphobe.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

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2 weeks ago | salon.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

There's an old John Mulaney routine in which he imagines what one might say to persuade someone to convert to Catholicism. First, "Don't Google us," he suggests in an "SNL" monologue from 2019, before adding, "You know that strange look of shame and unhappiness I have in my eyes at all times, especially after sex, and it was all forced on me at birth? What if you voluntarily signed up for it?" Six years later, here we are with a vice president who's done exactly that.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

There's an old John Mulaney routine in which he imagines what one might say to persuade someone to convert to Catholicism. First, "Don't Google us," he suggests in an "SNL" monologue from 2019, before adding, "You know that strange look of shame and unhappiness I have in my eyes at all times, especially after sex, and it was all forced on me at birth? What if you voluntarily signed up for it?" Six years later, here we are with a vice president who's done exactly that.

3 weeks ago | salon.com | Mary Elizabeth Williams

As one of the most successful musical artists of all time, Katy Perry can do pretty much whatever she wants. She's had nine number-one hits and sold millions of albums worldwide. She has gone into outer space for the length of time it takes to microwave a potato.