Noah Berlatsky

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.