Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.

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

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.

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

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