There’s a passage in the opening of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt’s 1994 treatise on Southern manners undone, where Savannah antiques dealer Jim Williams delivers a withering critique of Southern aristocracy. “Blue bloods are so inbred and weak,” Williams says. “All those generations of importance and grandeur to live up
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Non-binary model and activist Jules Guaitamacchi. (Supplied) Trans and non-binary people exist everywhere. Even in your workplace. But this can be a challenge: a third of UK employers admit they wouldn’t hire someone who is openly trans, and one in eight trans employees report being physically attacked by colleagues or customers in the last year.
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This week, El Paso, Texas, approached a breaking point. On Monday and Tuesday alone, the city reported 1,550 and 994 new cases of COVID-19, respectively, bringing the total to about 76,000 cases this year. The situation has reportedly been dire for about a month, leading to echoes of March and April: makeshift morgues and hospitals
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Megan Thee Stallion celebrates the ‘body’ in a hot new music video with cameos from big names like Taraji P. Henson, and Kardashian rivals Jordyn Woods and Blac Chyna. Though the weather has gotten a bit cold, it’s still “Hot Girl Summer” somewhere — or should we say “Hot Girl Fall”? Megan Thee Stallion has
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The Trades Union Congress has released a powerful new short film showing the challenges that come with transitioning in the workplace. The moving video, written and directed by Sam Nicklin, was released by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to mark Transgender Awareness Week. It follows a character named Liam, played by trans masc actor Kenya Sterling,
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Tonight, the Latin Recording Academy held the 21st Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. See a partial list of winners below, and see the full list here. J Balvin led the pack in nominations, 13 in all for for his March record Colores and last year’s collaborative album OASIS with Bad Bunny.  Colores won for Best Urban
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Hulu’s Palm Springs and HBO’s Lovecraft Country lead the nominations for the inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards, which are best described as being more pop culture and genre-oriented version of the Critics Choice Awards. These awards are a special event honoring the most popular, fan-obsessed genres across both television and movies, including Superhero, Science Fiction/Fantasy,
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When Donald Trump tasked Rudy Giuliani with spearheading his legal effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, it was obviously the final nail in the coffin of this extremely sad attempt to overthrow democracy. While Giuliani started his career as a federal prosecutor, of late his professional activities have involved trying and failing
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