Noah Berlatsky

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

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

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

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.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.