Noah Berlatsky

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

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

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.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

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

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.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.