Noah Berlatsky

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Illicit passions aren't less enjoyable because they're illicit. Quite the contrary.

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

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

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

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.