Noah Berlatsky

Scientists are hotly debating whether we should send messages into space. Perhaps they should consult Octavia Butler for some wisdom...

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

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.

For a second, it looked like the rabid hordes of gamergaters would be joined by metalheads. But #metalgate was never meant to be.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.

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

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.