Noah Berlatsky

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

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

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

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