Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.