Noah Berlatsky

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

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

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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.