Noah Berlatsky

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

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

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

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

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.