Noah Berlatsky

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?