Noah Berlatsky

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.