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Published June 30, 2021 The Canadian arm of IKEA has unveiled a set of one-off loveseats to mark pride month, and in doing so it unleashed upon the world the most threatening piece of furniture ever conceived: the bisexual couch. There are couches to celebrate a bunch of different identities, including a Two-Spirit couch, an asexual couch and a pansexual couch. The non-binary couch is adorned with some kind of chic harness, while the progress flag couch is covered in rainbow-coloured flowers. The bisexual couch, meanwhile, is plastered with creepy-looking hands and the words: “When you chan...

Ellie Kemper apologised for taking part in the Veiled Prophet Ball after being called a "KKK Princess" but what's the real history of Veiled Prophet?

Sosie Bacon plays the former daughter-in-law of Kate Winslet's detective character, Mare Sheehan.

Wondering why Ellie Kemper is trending on Twitter? I’ll tell ya why, because she has been linked to a pageant that allegedly has a very racist origin story. Fans dug up an article by The Atlantic from 2014 that reveals she entered and won a debutante ball back in 1999 called the Veiled Prophet Ball when she was 19. The annual event is held in St. Louis and its name was changed to Fair Saint Louis in 1992. The club itself allegedly has a history of racism as Black members were not allowed to join the organisation until 1979. According to the article, it was founded by “wealthy white elite...

It's night time in America, which means it is time for another edition of Shacknews Evening Reading.