Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
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.
Read...Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.
Read...Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.
Read...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?
Read...Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.
Read...The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.
Read...Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.
Read...Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.
Read...According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.
Read...As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
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