Noah Berlatsky

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

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

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

Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.

Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

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.

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

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

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.