Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

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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.

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.

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