Month: January 2025

Donald Trump’s inauguration has caused a dramatic increase in calls to LGBTQ+ mental health hotlines, and studies have shown that anti-LGBTQ+ legislation worsens queer people’s emotional well-being. As a result, queer therapists are on the front lines of helping ensure that LGBTQ+ people remain safe and healthy for Trump’s onslaught of anti-queer politics. In the
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Get ready for one gnarly, excruciating experience with Snoring Dog Games‘ The Flayed Man, coming to Windows PC via Steam and itch.io on April 17, 2025! The game marks the studio’s public debut and combines literary influences like Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe with point-and-click mechanics similar to Fran Bow and The Excavation of
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@Prettyeeer writes, ” It’s the ginger and jacket for me!!! Deets on the good Sis jacket, please!” Leave it to Fashion Bomb daily to answer your fashion inquiries in the nick of time. “One of Them Days” actress Keke Palmer is in her prime, and the multitalented artist was captured attending a Brooklyn Nets Game
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Book Influencers Predicting the Next Big Thing Elle tapped some of the big book influencers of our day
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EXCLUSIVE: Indie distribution company Entertainment Squad has acquired dormant LGBTQ+ label PrideFlix and appointed former Odin’s Eye exec Martin Gallery as Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions. Gallery will spearhead acquisitions for the revitalized label and focus on Entertainment Squad’s international sales slate, meeting with buyers at EFM Berlin next month. Entertainment Squad has previously
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Heidi Klum’s son is following her footsteps down the runway. The America’s Got Talent judge’s 19-year-old son Henry Samuel made his runway debut at the Lena Erziak Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 Show during Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 28. Making the occasion even more special, Heidi’s son—whom she shares with ex-husband Seal—opened the presentation. The
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We had the opportunity to talk with Chicago Fire showrunner Andrea Martin about the upcoming crossover with Chicago Med and Chicago PD. Don’t worry — there aren’t any spoilers. However, we did discuss the logistics of creating these crossovers, including who determines character arcs across the three series. Get the fire started for the epic
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg meets with apprentices and union members during a tour of the IBEW Local 153 training facility on Wednesday, Dec. 4, in South Bend. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is reportedly “taking a serious look” at running for U.S. Senate seat in the battleground state of Michigan in 2026, Axios writes. The seat
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Department of Education Dismisses “So-Called” Book Bans Under Trump Administration The U.S. Department of Education is rescinding all
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Laura Casabé’s The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a lot like two other festival favorites morphed into one uncomfortable, horror-adjacent package. Quarry Lake has the oppressive and bleak rurality of Carlota Pereda’s 2022 festival favorite (and eventual Goya Award winner) Piggy alongside the subtle yet insidious sexual
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Brrr…we hear it’s cold in the atmosphere and what better way to keep cozy than in a chic Balenciaga faux fur coat? Cardi B, Monica and Serena Williams have all been captured rocking the electric blue $7,500 Balenciaga statement coat on different occasions. The Spanish luxury fashion house that’s headquarter in Paris is known for
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Adeline Rudolph, star of this fall’s Mortal Kombat 2, and Arden Cho (Partner Track) are set to lead Perfect Girl, a psychological thriller set against the competitive world of K-pop, from director Hong Won-ki (Goedam) and Scott Strauss’s Badlands. Billed as Scream meets Black Swan, the film is based on a 2023 Black List script
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President Donald Trump’s inauguration at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. A transgender woman serving time in federal prison filed the first federal lawsuit on Sunday challenging Donald Trump’s executive order targeting what he called “gender ideology extremism.” The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners The American Library Association announced the winners of this year’s Carnegie Medals for
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It takes some guts to follow in the footsteps of writer James Schamus and director Ang Lee, but Andrew Ahn has achieved something pretty special here with his big-hearted reinterpretation of the pair’s 1993 arthouse hit The Wedding Banquet. Its unapologetic approach to all the which-ways of human attraction might be a bit full-on for
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