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

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

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

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.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."

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