Noah Berlatsky

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

Can a popular author also be celebrated for literary quality? Not if that author is a woman like Austen.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.

David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.