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.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?