Noah Berlatsky

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?

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

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

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.

Talking about race can get you into a lot of trouble . . . especially if you don't have a lot of class power or status.

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

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.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.