Noah Berlatsky

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

"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.