Noah Berlatsky

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

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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

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

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.