Noah Berlatsky

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.

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

Did the classic Adam West Batman show strike a blow (Kerwhap!) for feminism?

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

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

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.