Noah Berlatsky

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

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

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.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

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.