Noah Berlatsky

"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.

Lower your standards, live in moderate amounts of filth, and go to bed early. The cat will thank you.

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

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

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

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

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

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.