Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

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

Conservative fetishization of the past is myopic, simplistic, and mean-spirited—but progressives can be too quick to cede tradition.

At first, this looks like sexism. And then you realize, hey, this is sexism. Hope isn't allowed to do the dangerous job because Pym has put her on a pedestal, and won't let her off it.

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

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

These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.