Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

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.

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

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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