Noah Berlatsky

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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.

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

"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.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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

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

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?