Noah Berlatsky

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

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.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

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

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