Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

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

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

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Under the guise of philanthropy, 8 Minutes essentially blackmails some of the most marginalized and powerless people in society.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.