Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.
Read...A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.
Read...I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.
Read...Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.
Read...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.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.
Read...Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.
Read...The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.
Read...Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.
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