Noah Berlatsky

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?

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

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

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.