Noah Berlatsky

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

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

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.