A is for anxiety, which itself comes in many shapes and colors.

B is for bipolar disorder, a term still ignorantly used to describe mood swings or temper tantrums.

C is for Cotard delusion, a term for a condition that leads an individual to believe he or she is already dead or does not exist. 

These are the ABCs of mental illness, thoughtfully compiled and illustrated by India-based writer, illustrator and graphic designer Sonaksha Iyengar. 

Iyengar began the series as part of 36 Days of Type, a project challenging designers and illustrators to create their own takes on the letters and numbers of the alphabet, all of which respond to a singular theme. Iyengar, who has struggled with her mental health in the past, decided to focus her alphabet-based works around the still-stigmatized subject.

Every day, the artist uploads a new image to Instagram focused on a specific condition and its first letter. The images, depicting states ranging from jealousy to insomnia, reveal how mental health struggles touch all lives, and are not always tethered to a diagnosed condition.

Iyengar has taken some liberties with the disorders and behaviors she’s chosen to illustrate ― for example, Cotard delusion, or Cotard’s syndrome, is not recognized in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-V and only extreme jealousy might be considered a mental illness ― but the underlying message remains steady: She aims to spotlight illnesses and symptoms that are often overlooked or under-recognized. Iyengar hopes her imagery, rendered in dreamy pastels seemingly plucked straight from the subconscious, encourage open and generous discussions on the subject matter.

“‘Get over it’ is not how it works,” the artist told BuzzFeed, “and I think being more aware and acknowledging mental health will help us make a start in the direction towards kindness and empathy.”

“It is time to have honest conversations with each other about the importance of mental health,” she concluded.

Immerse yourself in the conversation with Iyengar’s works below, and follow her on Instagram for more. 

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Meet Edith Fuller. She’s 5 years old and on Saturday became the youngest competitor to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 

Over the weekend, Fuller beat more than 50 children ages 5 to 14 to win the 2017 Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the competition, she had to spell 37 words, including “jacamar,” “jnana” and “fennec.” 

Edith, who is homeschooled, clearly has a real talent for spelling. Her parents told Tulsa World they first noticed it last summer when she spelled the word “restaurant” without ever having learned it.

“We knew there was something special there,” said her mom, Annie.

In a few months, Edith will go to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which is set to take place between May 30 and June 1.

The little competitive speller has an exciting time to look forward to. “I feel thankful,” she told her local newspaper.

We feel inept.

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”Bob’s Burgers,” an animated series created by Adult Swim veteran Loren Bouchard, debuted in January of 2011. Since then, the show ― based on the lives of the Belchers (Bob, Linda, Tina, Gene and Louise) ― has amassed a devoted following, one especially prone to spreading intricate fan theories across Reddit, YouTube and other fandom forums.

“Bob’s Burgers” isn’t a sci-fi or fantasy show. It’s not a serialized crime drama or murder mystery saga, either. It’s just a cartoon about a working-class family of five that gets into the kinds of shenanigans the Hills or the Griffins do, that just happen to involve sufficiently fictional plot points like sentient toilets, coveted whale excrement and “animal anus extravaganzas.” (Bouchard’s words, not ours.)

Yet, type the phrase “Bob’s Burgers fan theories” into Google and you’ll stumble upon some wild suppositions. The juiciest one claims “Bob’s Burgers is about Bob coping with the death of his family.” That’s right, many theorists propose the Belchers ― save for Bob ― are dead, and the episodes we watch are just detailed hallucinations taking place in our protagonist’s grieving mind. Morbid? Definitely. Plausible? Sure! At least, Bouchard thinks so.

We spoke to the “Home Movies” creator ahead of this month’s PaleyFest LA, where the cast and crew of “Bob’s Burgers” will be onsite for a table read of next season’s premiere. During our conversation, Bouchard addressed a few of the best fan theories out there ― and while he doesn’t think Bob’s family is dead, he has a good reason for why the theory makes sense.

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“The Simpsons” is in its 28th season, “South Park” is in its 20th, “Family Guy” is in its 15th, “Bob’s Burgers” is in its seventh. Will you keep making this show until they ― the network, humanity ― stop you?

Yes. I mean, it’s amazing and interesting that it turns out that animated shows can have that kind of longevity. It’s humbling and it’s daunting, because not only do you run out of stories you’ve told, if “The Simpsons” and “South Park” have already been on the air for all those years, then we run out of stories that they’ve told, too, you know what I mean? There’s no question that I think it’s hard, but I do think it’s really doable. You just have to pace yourself and you’ve got to also really, really like the people that you work with. And that’s what I think we have going for us, which is that we have a really good crew. It’s kind of like getting married. You can imagine getting old with these people.

Has there ever been a moment when you felt like, OK, this might be the end of the show?

Well, I mean, that’s the way we started. We were still quite… I don’t want to say “pessimistic.” Shall we say, we were very, very humble and just scared shitless when we started this thing. We were quite sure we were going to get canceled, not because we weren’t proud of the show. We were. We felt like it was really good, or, at least, it was the best show that we could make. But at the beginning, we felt like we were getting away with something, having it on broadcast TV. It’s a little like a cable show that snuck onto broadcast.

Well, it’s attracted an incredible audience. I spent a lot of time on the various fan theory sites and forums this week. In one of the more startling fan theories I’ve read on the internet, a whole school of “Bob’s Burgers” thought seems to believe that Bob’s family is actually dead, and your show is an elaborate series of hallucinations. Is there any truth in this?

No, but I totally understand that. I completely get it. They’re not supposed to be dead. But we do have this problem, where, if a show is really grounded, our fans understandably start to kind of expect a little bit of serialization. Or, at least, continuity. And that would be fine. I would give them that. But the problem then becomes, well, it’s not really an episodic sitcom. In a way, what we have to do is tell a “Groundhog’s Day” kind of story, where these people are going to live the same year over and over again. You know what I mean? We have a couple of birthdays in there, but basically, they’re going to stay the same age, they’re going to live in this ever-present now, and yet they’re going to have more than one Christmas, more than one Thanksgiving, and so on. So, I get it. I get that it feels a little bit like limbo. They’re not supposed to be dead, but obviously there’s something going on here. It’s not quite the way we experience time. The Belchers, if we’re lucky, are going to have at least 20 Christmases and yet never get old.

How about the theory that Louise wears bunny ears as an homage to “The Simpsons” theory that Marge has mutant bunny ears under her hair?

[Laughs] No, I didn’t even know that theory! That’s really funny. No, we’re sort of guarding the bunny ears thing. But I like that people are speculating about it. I would rather just fan those flames than explain it at this point.

Have you ever been inspired by ― or tempted to respond to ― fan theories in your writing of the show?

No, not yet. I like sort of lurking online and seeing what people are responding to. But I also try not to let it influence us too much, because that could get really circular and you could lose your way a little bit. I do look online, but I do squint ― a little bit ― so that we can stay true to the thing we set out to do in the first place and not start eating our own tail.

Perusing the fan theories, they don’t really read as crazier than your initial plan ― to write a show about a family of cannibals. I was reminded of this in the Season 7 episode, “There’s No Business Like Mr. Business Business,” when the whole family falls for cat food and can be seen sort of rapturously eating it at the end. Were you at all living your cannibal fantasy in this episode?

You know, the cannibal thing is, like, both completely gone and, yeah, maybe hanging around in some weird, subliminal way. And I supposed, yeah, maybe it made it in there. We kind of used it, to what it was worth to us, in the pilot, where they are straight up accused of putting human flesh in their hamburgers. And then more recently, we had that horse meat episode. So, in some ways, we’re food ethicists in a really weird, accidental and cartoony way. So maybe that’s how it will stay in.

This has been talked about a lot ― that in the original proof of concept, the eldest Belcher child was originally meant to be male and named Daniel. Which is, wow, I can’t imagine the show without Tina at this point. And brings me to the question: What inspires Tina’s dating life?

That’s a good question. You know what inspires her dating life? Basically, this same issue that we were talking about, as it pertains to the ever-present now or the multiverse or whatever you want to call this problem of writing an episodic show, where ― if you’re telling this story about a teenage girl, who has a crush on Jimmy Jr. and sometimes wants to have a relationship with him, they have to be on-again, off-again. In order to really explore this girl’s romantic urges and pain and pleasure, she has to be, by definition in a way, occasionally off-again, so she can dally with other boys. And then she has to be pursuing him again, and he’s pursuing her. So, it’s sort of inspired by everyone’s early dating life when nothing is quite nailed down. Does that make sense? When you’re 13 and you’re not quite sure if you’re in a relationship or not. You think you might be, but it feels very fragile when you’re at that age. It’s like if you guys exchanged meaningful eye contact that day, then you’re in a relationship.

In the show, teenage sexuality is never “dirty.” Bob and Linda are typically very curious and supportive rather than judgmental. Was this a deliberate decision?

Yes. We were acutely aware of the pleasure of having Bob help Tina get her first kiss for her 13th birthday, which was early in Season 1. We were acutely aware of the pleasure of parents who are kind of OK with whatever their kids are into. And if that’s the beginning of Tina’s hormones and sexuality, then so be it. Honestly, it wasn’t funny to have that parents be especially prudish. It seemed, in a way, more funny, or at least more fun, to have them basically be on the same page. And, you know, occasionally slightly disapproving or concerned, but only in the lightest, loving way. Overall, we wanted this vibe of understanding and tolerance, because to us, it actually seemed more funny. To us, the very prudish parents who don’t want to know seemed really played out to us.

I’ve read that the network does draw the line, in terms of explicit content that makes it onto the show, at human feces. What, in your opinion, has been the riskiest plot of the show that came as close to the network’s “line” as possible?

Well, first I want to say that we have a really good relationship with standards and practices. They are really sweet about the show. They’re not trying to pull us off something that we want to do. Generally speaking, they have their basic guidelines and then borderline gray areas. And whenever we hit one of those spots, we sort of just have a conversation about it. So, you know, for example, we didn’t think we’d be able to do this animal anuses extravaganza, but they helped us. They were like, “Please reduce the size of the mouse anus.” That kind of thing. And we were like, “Nooo problem. Here we go. Reducing mouse anus.”

Early on, there was an episode ― and this didn’t hit standards and practices, this was executives, and they’re actually no longer there. But early on, they were kind of grossed out by a storyline that we were fooling around with but we never did, where Bob imagines that he’s inside of his own colon. So maybe we crossed the line there? But maybe not. If we got really excited about it, they’d probably let us do it. There’s a lot of trust there and, generally speaking, if there’s something we want to do, they’re there to help us figure out how to do it and just not make a mess.

There’s an ominous “plus additional guests to be announced” note in the PaleyFest info I received? Can you elaborate on that at all?

Yes, I can. So we’re going to table an episode called “Brunch Squad,” which is going to be our premiere this fall. In that episode, we introduce a character who we describe as a blogger who writes about brunch. And his name is Dalton, but he writes under the name Dame Judy Brunch. And he is played by an actor named John Early. Have you watched “Search Party”? Yeah, we’re enamored of him. We’re big fans. He came in and we also gave him, what we call, I guess, just his entourage. So we’re going to have him and a few other folks join us for the table read.

Is there a guest you’ve really wanted to get on the show that you haven’t yet?

Well, I mean, we’re like everyone else in the world ― when we found out Bill Murray had an 800 number, we called it and left a message. And you know, he didn’t call us back. And that’s fine. There are plenty of people we’ve reached out to who haven’t done the show. And you know what, in a way, every one of them made the right decision, because we only want people on the show who really, really want to do it. It’s so much more fun to do this with people who are really excited to be there and it’s so not fun to do this kind of work with people who are busy, who said yes for some reason ― their agent told them to. We don’t want that. They don’t want that.

The “Bob’s Burgers” album comes out in May ― is there a musician or collaborator you were especially excited to get on board?

Oh, I mean, the music is a labor of love, a passion project. We’ve been so happy that the music has been so well-received by the fans. The fact that then we’ve been able to hear our songs covered by other musicians has been really fun. In general, it’s a love letter to the fans. Writing music for the characters to sing, whether or not they get covered by someone ― that’s gravy. The main thing for us is just being able to put music into the show in a way that feels good and having the fans respond. And the record ― it sounds cheesy to say it was a collaboration with the fans, but it really is. We’ve been eavesdropping for six years, listening to what they liked. Also, they’ve been asking for this thing. So we’re delivering. And it’s something that turned out to be really hard. We wouldn’t have done it had the fans not kept bringing it up. That was really gratifying and we wanted to reward that. So this is for them, first and foremost. It wouldn’t exist if they hadn’t just kept asking for it.

Last question: I’m a usually an arts editor, so I have to ask ― are you the infamous thief behind the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist?

[Laughs] How did you know about that? Who did I even tell that to? Oh, that’s funny. Yeah, go ahead and say that I am. I’m the thief. Or pretend I said that and then asked you to strike it from the record. Why would I admit that now? So close to getting away with it.

[Editor’s Note: For the record, Bouchard is not the infamous thief behind the heist, which took place in 1990 and resulted in the theft of 13 works of art valued at $500 million. He just happened to work as a nightwatchman at the museum before the heist actually happened. We had to ask, though.]

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

PaleyFest LA, produced by The Paley Center for Media, will take place at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles from March 17 to 26, bringing together the fans, stars and creators behind popular TV shows for a series of special screenings, exclusive conversations and behind-the-scenes scoops. On March 24, the voice cast and creative team of “Bob’s Burgers” will take part in a Q&A and live table read of an upcoming episode. PaleyFest is open to the public and tickets are currently on sale at PaleyFest.org.

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U.K.-based artist Conor Collins painted an image of President Donald Trump using his problematic language as the foundation for the portrait. The painting itself is set upon a wall of white-washed dollars.

According to Collins, the work is made up of “racist, sexist, ignorant and bigoted things” said by the president during his time in office and while he ran his campaign. He created the portrait to draw attention to the effect Trump's rhetoric has had on the public, and says that the project has also provided him with a way to cope with post-election stress.

”I resisted making this painting for a as long as I could,” Collins told The Huffington Post. “However, every time I turned on the TV, I saw Trump. Every time I checked my Twitter, it was Trump. If I was on the bus, I would hear a conversation about Trump. Even if there was a single moment of peace, of calm, of not hearing him…you knew at any second the conversation would go back to him. So I had a choice…either go against the tide or go with it but faster. I realized I was blinkering myself by not painting him. Because he has spread everywhere, like a rash.”

Collins, an openly gay artist, has created similar works in the past, including a separate portrait of Trump that he made during the campaign. He also completed projects using this same style of portraiture when Caitlyn Jenner received hundreds of death threats after coming out as transgender and another out of the homophobic tweets directed at Olympic diver Tom Daley in 2014.

“Words matter. Words transform people,” Collins continued. “ I don’t think about what makes my paintings similar or different to each other. I leave that to the experts.”

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An independent, up-and-coming publication that strives to present the queer community as one of deep diversity is putting the gay men of Mumbai, India in the spotlight. 

(This article contains images that might be considered not suitable for work.) 

Shot by founder and editor Liam Campbell, the photographs below appear in the tenth issue of Elska magazine. Each issue of Elska is focused on exploring the nuances of queer life in different cities around the world. Campbell, who previously worked as a flight attendant before launching the bimonthly magazine in 2015, said each of his Indian subjects were “really enthusiastic” about being photographed, especially since South Asian people are still underrepresented across LGBTQ media. 

Though India is home to a visible queer community, gay sex was deemed a criminal offense in 2013 when a colonial era law was controversially reinstated. Still, Campbell said the men he spoke with felt that Indian culture was, in fact, becoming more tolerant over time. “The cultural issue is rather not about being gay but more about just not being ‘normal.’ There are so many family obligations and expectations that being gay doesn’t seem to fit in with,” the 34-year-old told The Huffington Post. “Things seem to be slowly changing, with events like Pride marches in the big cities, the coming out of some celebrities, a few gay characters emerging from Bollywood productions raising visibility.”

Previous issues of Elska have been dedicated to queer communities in Berlin, Lisbon and Yokohama. Due in May, the magazine’s eleventh issue will be dedicated to Providence, Rhode Island and, Campbell vows, will be “racially the most diverse of any issue so far, which is pretty much what you expect from an American city.” The diversity that the magazine presents, Campbell said, was “simply a reflection of reality.” 

“I purposely want it to feel spontaneous, as though the guys in each issue are just the guys I happened to meet on my journey, and I want the reader to feel like he’s there with us,” he said. “I’m not looking for any type of guy to shoot; we’ve shot different body types, races, and ages… Basically I just shoot anyone and everyone that’s up for it.”

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Do people love “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise,” or do they love to hate these shows? It’s unclear. But here at “Here to Make Friends,” we both love and love to hate them — and we love to snarkily dissect each episode in vivid detail. Podcast edited by Nick Offenberg.

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Have you been getting your daily dose of poetry? The New Yorker wants to make sure you do: This week, the venerable magazine celebrated its 92nd year with the rollout of The New Yorker Poetry Bot, which will “send out a poetry excerpt at random every day for the next ninety-two days” via Twitter and Facebook Messenger.

The program disseminates snippets of poetry from The New Yorker’s archive, curated by poetry editor Paul Muldoon and poetry coordinator Elisabeth Denison, along with links to the full poems on the site. Poetry fanatics and newbies alike can follow @TNYPoetry on Twitter to have the poems show up in their newsfeed, or install the bot on their Facebook Messenger to receive them directly. Certain poems come with “audiograms” of the poets reading their own work:

The bot was developed by the New Yorker team in collaboration with coders Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi, whose other bots ― like the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Twitter-bot ― will likely ring a bell for social media denizens.

“The new technology associated with the bot may seem to be at odds with how poetry has traditionally been delivered,” Muldoon told The Huffington Post via email. “In fact, it’s absolutely consistent with how poetry has always come to us in the world — unpredictably, randomly, taking us unawares.” 

Monica Racic, The New Yorker’s multimedia editor, told HuffPost that the magazine wanted to mine its rich reserve of poems and connect new, more digital-based readers to the art form. “Poetry is personal and so, we thought, what better way to receive it than through a private message sent directly to you?” she explained via email. Twitter offers a less personal delivery, but she praised the “serendipity” of “discovering a poetry excerpt among a sea of tweets.”

Poetry has fallen out of fashion over the past few decades ― and centuries ― but that doesn’t mean we don’t need the medium’s pensive, evocative mode of processing reality. Even in the midst of such a dramatic historical moment, when Twitter and Facebook have become primary battlefields in an ideological struggle, the quiet introspection fostered by poetry is vital. 

“Poetry can be a salve when no other words will do,” Racic added. “And it seems pertinent, now more than ever, to find time for reflection and, hopefully, inspiration.”

For the many of us now looking for ways to practice self-care ― for our minds and souls as well as our bodies ― a daily poetry break sounds like just the ticket. 

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The Brazil Open wrapped up on Monday with Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas winning the title — but the real stars of the tennis tournament have four legs and, if we’re being honest, not-so-great form.

Six dogs from animal shelters in Brazil served as “ball boys” on Saturday to raise awareness for pet adoption, and also just to wow the crowds with their overwhelming cuteness.

Cindy, Nanda, Blackie, Mia, Arlete and Ovelha came from two animal shelters in Sao Paulo — Second Chance (Proyecto Segunda Chance) and Dogs Without Owners (Cão Sem Dono), according to ATP World Tour. The dogs joined Brazilian tennis player Marcelo Demoliner and coach Joao Zwetsch in an exhibition match on Saturday.

“It was pretty fun, super cool with the dogs, really nice experience,” Demoliner told the outlet. He did note that the canines might need to “improve a bit” if they were going to serve in a real match.

This was the second year that dogs up for adoption joined the Brazil Open. In 2016, four former street dogs took to the courts and have all since been adopted.

“We want to show that abandoned dogs can be adopted and trained,”Andrea Beckert, a dog trainer who worked with the 2016 crew, told CNN last year. “After all, it’s not easy to get a dog to only pick up the lost balls, and then to give them up!”

All of the dogs who appeared at the event last year have already been adopted. We hope this year's talented team all find homes soon, too.

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In 2014, Oklahoma photographer Lora Scantling photographed three little girls battling childhood cancer. 

One beautiful image from the photo shoot showed then 3-year-old Rylie, 6-year-old Rheann, and 4-year-old Ainsley in a supportive embrace. The emotional photo went viral, appearing on websites and social media accounts around the world.

Taking the photo was a powerful experience for Scantling. “My stepdad was losing his fight with lung cancer, and I wanted to get to do something that spoke a thousand words that would draw emotion,” she told The Huffington Post.

“I chose childhood cancer because I also have a friend who had lost her little boy to cancer a few years before that,” she explained. “I put a post out on Facebook seeking little girls who were fighting cancer, and the portrait was born!”

Though the girls hadn’t met before the day she took that photo, they became instant friends. Now, all three of them are cancer-free, and they reunite each year to take a new portrait together.

On Tuesday, Scantling posted the 2017 version on her Facebook page.  

“This year really shows how much they have grown and how healthy they all look compared to past years!” Scantling told HuffPost.

In the photo, they have a gold ribbon, which represents childhood cancer awareness. They also took one posing in the same embrace. Past portraits have also shown them hugging and even holding the original portrait.

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“We plan to do the portrait every single year for as long as the girls and the world want us to!” said Scantling. 

The photographer said she and the families hope the girls can continue to inspire people and raise awareness around childhood cancer. “There needs to be more funding for childhood cancer so that they can update treatments,” Scantling said, bemoaning the fact that only four percent of federal funding for cancer research is dedicated to pediatric cancers.

Scantling has enjoyed working with this trio. “The girls as a group are so amazing when they are together!” she told HuffPost. “They know what this portrait means to the world. They know they are making a difference.”

She described Rheann as “sassy and sweet,” Rylie as “shy and goofy” and Ainsley as “wild and silly, with the sweetest most tender voice!”

Though all the girls are cancer-free, Rheann still has some tangible traces of her disease. She cannot grow hair due to her earlier radiation treatment and will likely always have eyes that droop because of her brain tumor’s location.

During the latest photo session, the three girls reflected on their cancer battles. 

Rheann said, “Cancer is like a dragon,” to which Ainsley responded, “Yeah, and chemo is the prince.”

Added Rylie: “Cancer messed with the wrong princesses!” 

Keep scrolling to see more of Scantling’s photos of the girls over the past three years

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Laura Esquivel’s story of forbidden love and independence is being adapted for television.

Mexican author’s 1989 classic novel Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua Para Chocolate) is being developed into an English-language series by Endemol Shine North America, according to Deadline. 

“It fills me with joy to know that Like Water for Chocolate will be brought to television screens throughout the world by a studio that bets on quality in producing content for each of its projects,” Esquivel said in a statement on March 2. “Of all the companies that offered to create the series, Endemol Shine Studios stood out in sharing a vision of Like Water for Chocolate closest to my own: leading from the heart.”

Esquivel novel tells the story of Tita de la Garza, the youngest daughter in a family living in Mexico at the turn of the century. Tita must challenge tradition to be with the love of her life, Pedro, and create her own destiny. The character’s story is told with a touch of magical realism, in monthly installments and with each chapter featuring a recipe.  

The novel was adapted into a critically-acclaimed Spanish-language film of the same name in 1992, with Esquivel writing the screenplay herself. The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category. 

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Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling are set to take one small step for man, but a huge leap in filmmaking.

On Tuesday, Deadline reported that the “La La Land” director would work with his leading man once more — this time, in “First Man,” a film about the 1969 moon landing. Gosling is slated to play Neil Armstrong.

According to Deadline, the project is based off of former NASA historian James R. Hansen’s Armstrong biography of the same name. Josh Singer, executive producer on “Spotlight,” will adapt the book for film. The story will follow Armstrong’s journey to becoming one of the most famous U.S. astronauts in history.

 “La La Land,” Chazelle and Gosling’s first collaboration, was an awards season darling, nabbing six Oscars, including Best Director. The film unforgettably missed out on Best Picture after it was briefly believed to be the winner.

Something tells us this new project will be out of this world. “First Man” is scheduled for release on Oct. 12, 2018.

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Tuesday marks 52 years since Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) helped lead the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in demand of voting rights for black Americans. 

In a series of tweets Tuesday, Lewis reflected on the demonstration that took place March 7, 1965, which was eventually written into history books as “Bloody Sunday” ― known as one of the most brutal assaults against peaceful protestors in modern American history. State troopers, most of them white, left nearly 600 activists bloody and beaten as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a march led by Lewis, then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which had helped organize the demonstration.

Though officers attacked demonstrators with batons and tear gas, two subsequent marches for voting rights followed same path from Selma to Montgomery, and both were led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself. However, Lewis has always recalled Bloody Sunday in particular as a protest that presented to him both great challenges and unforgettable lessons on life and activism.

Read his moving account of the march below in the tweets he posted Tuesday with the hashtag #Selma52: 

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In a time of political unrest, some people are turning to small positive acts as a way to push back against the larger trends of intolerance.

Celeste Ng, author of the award-winning Everything I Never Told You, started the hashtag #smallacts on Twitter after the election of President Donald Trump. Her goal: to share small-scale but meaningful actions she was taking to resist injustice and support threatened communities, from people of color to LGBTQ individuals. 

People have since used the hashtag to share their own acts of solidarity, including attending a lecture on racism and donating books on the immigrant experience to a local public school.

“I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist,” Ng wrote in a Teen Vogue commentary in January. “To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.”

The author has suggested such small acts of resistance as calling your elected representatives, donating diapers to local refugee families and subscribing to news outlets to show your support.

On Tuesday, the day after Trump issued a new executive order barring travelers from six majority-Muslim countries, Ng shared another list of actions she recently took ― including placing books by writers of color in a Little Free Library, a no-cost neighborhood book exchange program that exists around the world. She also urged followers to share their own efforts.

“It’s easy to feel helpless — like you can’t fight the tide,” Ng wrote in Teen Vogue. “But remember: small actions can have a huge impact, and one person like you can inspire others to action.”

Here are a few small-scale but important ways that 18 other Twitter users are fighting hate.

For HuffPost’s #LoveTakesAction series, we’re telling stories of how people are standing up to hate and supporting those most threatened. Know a story from your community? Send news tips to lovetips@huffingtonpost.com.

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About a year ago, photographer Kate Miller-Wilson started a photo series to communicate her son’s “unique and magical perspective” as someone with autism.

Miller-Wilson, a mom of two in Minnesota near Minneapolis, takes photos of her two sons every day. Sometimes, she’ll find a photo she took of her 10-year-old son Eian, who has high-functioning autism, that speaks to her about “the experience of loving someone with autism.” Other times, she’ll set up photos to illustrate her relationship with Eian. Collected over a year, these photos have helped her “communicate the beauty and challenges of autism.”

The mom has called the photo series a “creative and emotional outlet” for her, as well as a way to raise awareness about “some of the nuances” of autism spectrum disorders.

“Focusing on only the challenges or the disability doesn’t allow us to see the beauty; similarly, focusing on only the gifts doesn’t let us see the real work done by individuals on the spectrum and their parents and caregivers,” she told The Huffington Post. “In my work, I want to form an emotional connection with viewers, to offer a glimpse of all the shades and hues that make up daily life with someone on the spectrum.”

Though Miller-Wilson sometimes takes candid shots of Eian, she also sets up photos and sometimes creates images where there is a barrier between her and her son, like glass or ice. 

“Interestingly, it’s easier for him to make eye contact with my camera in shots like that,” she said.

Miller-Wilson told HuffPost she knows others will interpret her work in many different ways, which is important when talking about autism.

“There’s a saying in the autism community: ‘If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,’” she said. “In the case of other parents and kids on the spectrum, each person will experience my images in his or her own way. No matter how that is, I hope my work resonates as genuine and just emotionally accessible.”

She also had some advice for other parents of kids with autism: “You don’t have to be a saint.” 

“It’s OK to be frantically worried or angry or frustrated or desperately tired; all those feelings come from a place of love,” she said. “Owning those feelings keeps it real and lets you be present and really experience those little moments of joy that come along.”

Eian also approves of the photos, especially when they get lots of views or feedback online. His mom said he’s very focused on numbers. She also mentioned that he likes being in the photos now and that she hopes he’ll appreciate them when he’s older.

“I hope he’ll see them as the love letter they are.”

See more of Miller-Wilson’s work below and on Flickr.

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Emma Watson wants you to get lit... literature, that is.

The actress partnered with Vanity Fair’s Derek Blasberg to create a cute video of her roaming the subways of New York City and hiding books. She posted about the project on Instagram months ago, but the video has finally made its grand appearance.

In the video, Watson places copies of Maya Angelou’s Mom & Me & Mom on subway seats, behind pipes, in corners, and elsewhere underground in the Big Apple.

The book was a recommendation in Watson’s feminist book club, called Our Shared Shelf. The club is open to anyone who wants to join, and its reading list can be found on Goodreads.

Watson had posted images and video on Instagram of her doing similar book-related antics in London back in November.

Thankfully, her desire to share literature with others has transcended the Tube and made its way over to the States where even more people can reap the benefits. 

Congrats to all those who got their lucky hands on one of those hidden books!

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There are a ton of Easter eggs in the new “Deadpool 2” teaser, and they’re as sweet as Cherry Garcia ice cream.

An Easter egg is a reference hidden in a movie, TV show or any other kind of media that is intended for viewers with sharp eyes and/or a vast amount of knowledge about pop culture (**COUGH nerds COUGH**). And being that the first “Deadpool” movie was brimming with references that spanned from Salt-N-Pepa to Bea Arthur, it’s no surprise that our first peek at its sequel is jam-packed with them, as well.   

Vulture, New York Magazine’s entertainment website, has taken it upon themselves to point out and explain all of Easter eggs in the “Deadpool 2” teaser in the video above. And no, none of them involve Ryan Reynold’s bare butt.

That’s just there to entertain the masses.

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A religious fundamentalist society swiftly takes away women’s autonomy — and their rights to their own bodies. If you think the plot of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, now widely studied, sounds familiar, you’re not alone: the author agrees.

In response to a fan who tweeted, “I read The #HandmaidsTale for the first time during the Obama administration & even that honeymoon wasn’t enough to make it seem unrealistic,” the author responded, “Yes it does seem like the pause before whatever it is that’s happening now ... ”

Atwood’s book, about a woman named Offred who serves as a sexual surrogate to a family that’s having trouble conceiving, will be released as a TV adaptation on Hulu in April.

The author has been vocal about the story’s ties to today’s political climate. In a letter she shared through PEN/America in January, she cautioned against “dictators of any kind.” She began the letter with a quote from the novel: “Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”

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Nelson Mandela once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” 

And it’s true, education is one of the greatest resources the world has to offer. Unfortunately, young girls and women ― half of world's the population ― are rarely given the same opportunities as boys to learn, study and succeed.

Globally, 65 million girls are not in school. Out of the 774 million people who are illiterate around the world, two-thirds are women. There are 33 million fewer girls in primary school than boys. And education really does save lives: If every woman around the globe had a primary and secondary education, childhood deaths would be cut in half. 

In January, Betsy DeVos became the U.S. Secretary of Education. DeVos, who’s an education activist with little-to-no actual experience working in schools, comes from a billionaire family and advocates almost exclusively for private and charter schools. The right of children to a solid public education, once considered a clear public good in the United States, now hangs in the balance.

To celebrate International Women’s Day and honor the importance of global education, we’ve rounded up 60 photos of girls going to school around the world.

The photos feature girls of all ages from Iran to Somalia to the U.S. to Japan getting an education -- something all children should have a right to, no matter their gender. 

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For all the young readers who waited in anticipation for a letter of acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, hopeful in spite of an awareness that it would probably never show, that dream ― or a version of it, anyway ― can now be realized.

The Bothwell School of Witchcraft is a weekend-long event in Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England, complete with a moat and surrounding woodland. There won’t be a giant, hairy groundskeeper there to greet attendees, though. The creators of the Bothwell School are clear on their site that the getaway isn’t legally allowed to feature Harry Potter characters.

“However this means The Bothwell School of Witchcraft is set in an entirely different universe and time with entirely new characters and new plots!” the site’s FAQ section reads, protesting too much, perhaps. 

The school’s four houses are reminiscent of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s, featuring green-and-silver and purple-and-gold color schemes. The Bothwell event will be like an extended dinner theatre, with character roles determined based on pre-distributed questionnaires. Robes and ties will be provided, but the event is BYOW (bring your own wand).

The Bothwell School of Witchcraft isn’t the first attempt that fans or enterprising individuals have made to bring the world of Harry Potter to life. The organization has partnered with College of Wizardry and New World Magischola, related roleplaying weekends.

Harry Potter cosplay is among the most practiced at Comic-Con. Last year in San Diego, even less beloved minor characters like Dolores Umbridge were performed by attendees. 

For fans willing to pay £400 to £450, tickets to Bothwell will soon be available on Kickstarter. In the meantime, there’s always that creative space ripe for exploring: your imagination.

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