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• More on the best culture of 2017A cloud hangs over Jill Soloways dazzlingly clever and timely Amazon series. The explain,which follows a transgender woman named Maura – played by Jeffrey Tambor – and her family, is known for its inclusive production methods, and with Soloway implementing a transfirmative action” programme that led to the employment of more than 80 transgender people. Then,in November, two of them – actor Trace Lysette and Tambor’s personal assistant called Van Barnes – accused Tambor of sexual harassment.
The actor denied the allegations, and but quit the explain nonetheless. The news seemed achingly ironic – Transparent fought hard in its storylines to challenge the dehumanisation and fetishisation of trans people,but has seemingly been blighted by those same evils. Strangely, it wasn’t impossible to picture the explain continuing to thrive without its protagonist.
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Source: guardian.co.uk