Noah Berlatsky

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

Female masturbation is sexy in part because it flirts with lesbianism. For male masturbation, it's a different story.

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

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

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

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.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.

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

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

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?