Noah Berlatsky

Fans of Batgirl are fans of Batgirl. They buy her comic to see her being heroic, not to see her being a slasher movie victim.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

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

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

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?

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

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