Noah Berlatsky

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

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.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

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

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

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.