Noah Berlatsky

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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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.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.