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.

The Lord of the Flies can feel like a vacation spot for conflict-management consultants in comparison to social media.

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

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

Art without politics actually results in a sweeping Puritanism. For art to have power, it needs to engage with power, with politics.

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.

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

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

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