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.

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

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

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

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.

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

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.