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.

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

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.