Noah Berlatsky

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

Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?

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

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.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.

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

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

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

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