Noah Berlatsky

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.

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

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

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

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

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?