Noah Berlatsky

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

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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

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

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

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

"I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."