Noah Berlatsky

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

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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