Noah Berlatsky

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.

The acclaimed solo album of former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard raises questions about the very nature of "cred." Is pop antitethical to artistry?

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

"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.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.