Noah Berlatsky

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.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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.

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

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

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

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

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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