Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
Read...Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.
Read...Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.
Read...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.
Read...With the prospect of another Bush/Clinton presidential contest looming as ominously as Donald Trump's hairpiece, the word "dynasty" seems to be frothing off of many a pundit's keyboard. "Clinton, Bush struggle to shed dynasty labels," a Washington Post headline declared.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
Read...Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.
Read...The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?
Read...Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.
Read...The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.
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