A new Taylor Swift music video just dropped featuring transgender-identifying model Laith Ashley as Swift’s love interest.

The highly anticipated music video for “Lavender Haze” shows the Grammy Award-winning singer enjoying a new relationship, all in a smoky purple backdrop. The video, which was written and directed by Swift, shows Ashley in the main role next to Swift as the two lounge in bed and cuddle at a party.

“The ‘Lavender Haze’ video is out now. There is lots of lavender. There is lots of haze,” Swift shared on social media Friday morning with a teaser clip.

“There is my incredible costar @laith_ashley who I absolutely adored working with. This was the first video I wrote out of the 3 that have been released,” she continued. “This one really helped me conceptualize the world and mood of Midnights, like a sultry sleepless 70’s fever dream. Hope you like it.”

Ashley also shared about the video on social media. “Thank you so much [Taylor Swift] for allowing me to play a small part in your story. You are brilliant and this is an experience I will never forget,” the model shared. 

“Still at a loss for words. Trying to gather myself and my thoughts. I am so grateful,” Ashley tweeted in a follow-up.

“Lavender Haze” is the third song off Swift’s very successful Midnights album to get a music video following videos for “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled.” The singer has hinted that more will be released later on.

Ashley, meanwhile, is well-known in the industry with a burgeoning modeling career. The 33-year-old has posed for Diesel and Calvin Klein, and has appeared on the cover of Out magazine, Gay Times, and Vogue France. Ashley also appeared on Caitlyn Jenner’s reality show “I Am Cait” in 2016 and was a series regular on “Strut,” a short-lived series on Oxygen following the trans modeling agency Slay.

Ashley also appeared in other music videos and on television including “RuPaul’s Drag Race Pit Crew,” “Pose,” and “Unconventional.”

Swift’s inclusion of a transgender-identifying person in the music video is part of a larger trend in Hollywood and the media to increase trans representation. Recently, the fashion brand Burberry included what appeared to be a post-op trans person posing shirtless for one of their fashion ads on Instagram.

Hollywood has also been hyping the inclusion of trans-identifying stars, using their inclusion as a badge of honor in TV and movies.

A bear in Colorado took hundreds of pictures on a wildlife camera a few months ago, surprising officials.

Local authorities have said that a black bear in Boulder, Colorado, was the subject of about 400 of photos on one of its wildlife cameras in November.

“These pictures made us laugh, and we thought others would, too,” Phillip Yates, a spokesperson for Open Space and Mountain Parks, reportedly said in a statement this week.

The camera had around 580 photographs on it, but around 400 of them were “bear selfies,” the department said in a tweet.

Recently, a bear discovered a wildlife camera that we use to monitor wildlife across #Boulder open space. Of the 580 photos captured, about 400 were bear selfies.🤣 Read more about we use wildlife cameras to observe sensitive wildlife habitats. https://t.co/1hmLB3MHlU pic.twitter.com/714BELWK6c

— Boulder OSMP (@boulderosmp) January 23, 2023

The Open Space and Mountain Parks for Boulder put nine wildlife cameras up in order to help them learn additional details about animals that live in the area, while keeping employees out of the habitats. The devices are placed in the Open Space and Mountain Parks system, which is an area of 46,000 acres.

The photos were also put up on Instagram a few months ago.

“In this instance, a bear took a special interest in one of our wildlife cameras and took the opportunity to capture hundreds of ‘selfies,’” Yates noted.

The photographs “provide us with a unique opportunity to learn more about how local species use the landscape around us while minimizing our presence in sensitive habitats,” Yates said.

“The motion-detecting cameras provide us a unique opportunity to learn more about how local species use the landscape around us while minimizing our presence in sensitive habitats,” Will Keeley, senior wildlife ecologist for Open Space and Mountain Parks, said.

“These cameras play an important role in helping OSMP staff identify important wildlife areas. The information we collect from them is used to recommend habitat-protective measures to help protect sensitive natural areas,” Keeley added.

The group also puts the cameras in places where animals will likely pass through, and they also put them in locations where there is evidence that animals have been.

When a creature gets in front of the camera, the device takes a photo and the camera can then record footage for ten to thirty seconds.

“Sometimes we put cameras in locations where we think we’ll encounter enigmatic fauna like American beavers or black bears,” Christian Nunes, a wildlife ecologist with OSMP, added. “We are fortunate to live in an area with a rich diversity of wildlife species, and these cameras help us to learn what animals are really out there, and what they are up to over the course of a day, a week, or even years.”