Noah Berlatsky

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

C.S. Lewis' classic book presents an unlikely challenge to the patriarchy in the form of its true hero, Lucy.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

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

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

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

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

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?