Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

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.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.

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

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

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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