Noah Berlatsky

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

Who is memorialized in death has everything to do with race, class . . . and who you were in life.

Their sexuality traps and destroys male innocence, as they grad hold, by the penis- the better to lead him to castration. Make no mistake that castration is greeted with fear, terror, and disgust—but also with glee. Women as super villains allow their characters to be super powerful; a force for evil is at least a force. In a media landscape where women are often rendered secondary, invisible, and passive, the femme fatale, in her icy violence, seizes female agency along with the phallus that she so efficiently cuts off.

It's not the gender that's the problem: It's the oppression.

"Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.

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

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.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.