Katherine Williams, Author at Lithium Magazine

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Culture & Entertainment

Redefining Celebrity as Distance Disappears

In 2017, a 16-year-old girl named Emma Chamberlain uploaded her first YouTube video. The city-inspired lookbook, filled with a mid-2010s array of Brandy Melville and Pacsun, has now amassed almost…

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4 min

Culture & Entertainment

Let’s Stop Glorifying Men in Maid Outfits

In a TikTok with almost 2 million likes, user @plumsoju laments to the camera, “You say you want boys in a maid outfit. Why am I still single? Where’s my…

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Sex & Love

Six Sex-Positive Accounts to Spice Up Your Feed

If quarantine is making you horny, you’re not alone. Despite continued stigma around female sexuality, loving sex is nothing to be ashamed of (especially if it’s been months since your…

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3 min

Life

AI Models Are Instagram’s Dystopian Endgame

At first glance, you might think she’s real. Her street-style aesthetic, 20-something face, and millions of followers indicate influence and beauty. You might guess that she’s a YouTuber or model…

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Fashion & Beauty

Startups, Starter Packs, and the Limits of Instagram Fashion

Though the starter pack meme has mostly faded from trendiness, we all recognize its basic structure. Whether you’re a VSCO girl or an indie e-boy, you can definitely find one…

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7 min

Culture & Entertainment

Playboy Is Only As Woke As Its Readers

It’s a classic coming-of-age scene: a young teenage boy, on the cusp of puberty, jacking off to a centerfold of Farrah Fawcett. Maybe his mom walks in and he rushes…

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6 min

Fashion & Beauty

In Conversation with Susan Korn, Instagram’s Whimsical Fashion Queen

Gone are the days of brown leather handbags and shopping in the Macy’s bag department. Enter: Susan Alexandra. From snakes to rainbows, pretzels to flowers, blushing faces to neon patterns,…

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8 min

Life

The Micro-Trends of Quarantine, Ranked

With nowhere to be but inside, social distancing has turned us all into pseudo-cyborgs, scrolling through TikTok with screen times of seven or eight hours, existing to others only in…

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Life

Gazing at Myself

In the Notes app on my phone, there is a list entitled “books of high school.” I made it at the end of my freshman year with the intention of…

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Katherine Williams

Six Sex-Positive Accounts to Spice Up Your Feed

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To Think That I’d Ever Meet God

Playboy Is Only As Woke As Its Readers

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The Ideology Behind Anti-Vax Mommy Bloggers and QAnon Followers

Chasing

To Think That I’d Ever Meet God

In Conversation with Susan Korn, Instagram’s Whimsical Fashion Queen

The Micro-Trends of Quarantine, Ranked

Trending posts

The Ideology Behind Anti-Vax Mommy Bloggers and QAnon Followers

Chasing

To Think That I’d Ever Meet God

Gazing at Myself

The Ideology Behind Anti-Vax Mommy Bloggers and QAnon Followers

Chasing

To Think That I’d Ever Meet God

An Intimate Look at Intimate Apparel

Catholic Guilt Is Complicated

Why Do Leftist Men Still Hate Women?

High School Friends Are Better

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