Noah Berlatsky
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Country music is an overwhelmingly heterosexual endeavor. The LGBTQ community certainly listen to, and perform, country, but in terms of lyrical content and themes, country has been focused on male-female romantic love.
Read...Rodriguez is confused when she says that people want her to steal white people's superheroes. But she also has a point.
Read...Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.
Read...A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.
Read...As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.
Read...Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?
Read...So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?
Read...David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.
Read..."I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."
Read...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.
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