Noah Berlatsky

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

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

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

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

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

"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.

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