Noah Berlatsky

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.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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

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

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

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

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.