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.

Why should prostitution be illegal? And, more specifically why should male prostitution be illegal?

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

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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

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

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

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.