Noah Berlatsky

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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