Noah Berlatsky

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

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.

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

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

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

To read Massive isn't to discover a hidden truth, but to see a massive, obvious fact, bulging out for all the world to see.

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?

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