Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.