Noah Berlatsky

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

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

"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.

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