Noah Berlatsky
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Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.
Read...To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read...The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.
Read...Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.
Read...If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."
Read...Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.
Read...Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?
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