Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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

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

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

"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.

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

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