Noah Berlatsky

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

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

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.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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

Is it insulting to ask about the greatest female comics creator?

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

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

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

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.