Noah Berlatsky

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

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

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

Daredevil focuses on the dynamics of heroism—the display of strength and violence as a way to distance oneself from weakness.

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.