Noah Berlatsky

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

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.