Noah Berlatsky
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Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
Read...Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.
Read...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.
Read...For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.
Read...Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.
Read..."The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.
Read...Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?
Read...english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.
Read...Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.
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