Noah Berlatsky

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

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

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

"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.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

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

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

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

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Is the gender of the philosopher a marginal curiosity—or is it more central?