Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
Critics say call-out culture is mean-spirited and bullying. Not so fast.
Read...Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.
Read...Hating sex workers—and treating them as things—can get you money.
Read...Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.
Read...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...Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.
Read...Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.
Read...David Ress' Aphexswift is genius precisely because it's so unlikely.
Read...The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.
Read...Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.
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