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I can boo at Snape because I GET THINGS NOW.

All I want for Christmas is a Molly Weasley sweater.

Here is my current problem: THE WORLD IS FULL OF SPOILERS.

I got all the way to page 209 before crying for the first time.

#MasculinitySoFragile, amirite?

I’ve made it all the way to adulthood — not even young adulthood; it’s now just regular old adulthood — without touching Harry Potter.

Moral of the story: Beat up a woman and you, too, could play Coachella one day.

Jimmy Fallon and the Roots ice-bucket away. Image: YouTube

When Chris Arnade quit his white-collar job to pursue portrait photography, he had no idea his Faces of Addiction series would become a viral sensation. See his most stirring work here.

Women have changed their last names from their father’s to their new husband’s — a tradition that used to symbolize the transfer of “property” from one man to another. That property, of course, was the virgin bride. Many people will argue that it no longer has that implication, but for me, as a feminist, partaking in a tradition that is so rooted in the literal oppression of women is something that left an incredibly bad taste in my mouth.