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My speech to Oxford City Council proposing the Green Group's motion on the EHRC Code of Practice and Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
Cllr Dr Max Morris
@maxmorris.bsky.social
Green Oxford City Councillor. Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Criminology and Social Justice Research at Oxford Brookes University. Views my own. They/them.
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My speech to Oxford City Council proposing the Green Group's motion on the EHRC Code of Practice and Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
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🚢 Let’s not rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic/car parking spaces. Let’s reallocate space *from cars* to active travel and public transport. ✍️ Please respond to the consultation on changes to parts of Walton and Great Clarendon street. 🐈⬛ Deadline Friday 13th November 5pm. 1/
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Today is Intersex Awareness day. That's why we signed this Open letter calling the government to act and better support our intersex communities.
Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.
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I shared a video introducing myself as a non-binary person on a feminist panel recently and have received hate posts reading almost exactly like this every day since. Hate mongering harms everyone who doesn't conform to a narrow set of norms, whether we're considered "elite" (thanks) or otherwise. 🧐
The notion that academics working in gender studies (more expert than elite) should have absolutely nothing to say or do with women's liberation is unhelpful and, somewhat ironically, the kind of free speech suppression that these social media commentators seem to despise when it's the "wrong" kind.
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Cofnas is not a legitimate researcher, but a far-right white supremacist cosplaying as a "race scientist". His attempts to re-fortify debunked supremacist ideas from the 1930s speak to how disgusting this invitation is. I am sure Oxford will, as it often does, make its view plain.
The Oxford student branch of Reform UK has invited self-styled “race realist” Nathan Cofnas to speak. Cofnas, whose Substack was linked to the hounding of Jason Arday, said he aims to be “head of eugenics and race science at Harvard”. He was dismissed from Emmanuel (Cantab) and suspended by Ghent.
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Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
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🌳 Thanks to volunteers Helen and John for telling me more about the Oxford Urban Wildlife Group: www.ouwg.org.uk 🦋
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Joy and rage are powerful, motivating emotions that will continue to inspire trans+ defiance towards and resistance against unjust laws and policies until such a time as they are repealed.
What happens when a court ruling suddenly throws your life into turmoil? My new paper explores how trans+ people dealt with the aftermath of the FWS judgement, the EHRC's response, and political antagonism, showing they remained defiant, finding space for joy alongside fear and rage. bit.ly/4jhvf96
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All right, but apart from safer streets, cleaner air, and better business, what has low traffic ever done for us?
A report on 5 years of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in East Oxford shows that they have reduced road casualties by over 100. The report by the Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (CoHSAT) also points to the health benefits of reduced air pollution and performance of Cowley Road shops.
Joy and rage are powerful, motivating emotions that will continue to inspire trans+ defiance towards and resistance against unjust laws and policies until such a time as they are repealed.
What happens when a court ruling suddenly throws your life into turmoil? My new paper explores how trans+ people dealt with the aftermath of the FWS judgement, the EHRC's response, and political antagonism, showing they remained defiant, finding space for joy alongside fear and rage. bit.ly/4jhvf96
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Absurd. Unhinged. And breathtakingly dumb. All at the same time. It is moments like these where the UK declines to act like a serious country and falls headlong into self-parody. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Big thanks to @holybollards.bsky.social for lending me their cargo bike to transport some big houseplants up the hill to my office today. Now I want one! 🤩🚲🪴
My question and recommendation during tonight's Scrutiny Committee meeting, where we discussed future funding for the Museum of Oxford and recommended making it free of charge to local residents. 🏛️ @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
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📺 I'm really glad to see so much positive press around our motion supporting trans and non-binary people's rights in Oxford. This was spotted by @apowelllaw.bsky.social's nan and mum all the way down in Dorset tonight! Much more work to be done, but we will get there. 🏳️⚧️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
This reel has since been deleted on Instagram and Facebook by the BBC, I wonder why? 🤔
📺 And here is a video: "Oxford has the highest density of trans and non-binary people anywhere in the country apart from central London, and we really wanna make sure that we're looking out for that community" 💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
📺 I'm really glad to see so much positive press around our motion supporting trans and non-binary people's rights in Oxford. This was spotted by @apowelllaw.bsky.social's nan and mum all the way down in Dorset tonight! Much more work to be done, but we will get there. 🏳️⚧️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
📺 And here is a video: "Oxford has the highest density of trans and non-binary people anywhere in the country apart from central London, and we really wanna make sure that we're looking out for that community" 💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
📻 Here is a segment from BBC Radio Oxford yesterday about the Green Group's motion to keep our city trans inclusive 🏳️⚧️ @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
📻 Here is a segment from BBC Radio Oxford yesterday about the Green Group's motion to keep our city trans inclusive 🏳️⚧️ @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social
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My comment to BBC Oxfordshire on Monday's motion about the EHRC Code of Practice and Trans Rights: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Something else I drew to the attention of Oxford City Council was last week's protest outside the Churchill Hospital, opposing the NHS contract with Palantir, a tech firm linked to human rights abuses, war crimes, discriminatory policing practices, and mass surveillance: www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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Poll Check are projecting the result as incredibly close. We CAN win this! Join us tomorrow anytime between 7am-10pm and then come celebrate the Green victory you helped make happen!! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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"The pattern is clear: Vote Green and watch Labour move" @zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
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Political leadership has been tragically absent during this sustained campaign against trans rights that led to the new EHRC guidance. I'm proud that the motion proposed by Max at Oxford City Council passed, and there is much more to do.
Green councillor Max Morris proposed the motion and described "unacceptable levels of abuse on social media" for representatives who had previously put forward a proposal... They said that experience is "something that many of us are all too familiar with" www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2661155...
Green councillor Max Morris proposed the motion and described "unacceptable levels of abuse on social media" for representatives who had previously put forward a proposal... They said that experience is "something that many of us are all too familiar with" www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2661155...
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It was a pleasure to chair and organise. So many different stories from people, some I never would have believed. It just shows that we have to support each other and refuse to give up the space and the rage required to fix our broken health system.
What a fantastic event! Thank you to our speakers, Naabil and Max, and thank you to everyone who shared their experience of discrimination in healthcare 💚 We will continue to rage against the harms of the system, learn from each other, and work together to make change.
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An awesome video about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's campaign in Holborn & St Pancras. No wonder Burnham is running scared.
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Another weekend trip for @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social to Holborn and St Pancras to get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected. 💚
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Another weekend trip for @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social to Holborn and St Pancras to get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected. 💚
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The Oxford gang on tour door knocking in Camden for @zackpolanski.bsky.social, making friends along the way
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For Green Party friends who are going to be at conference next week, I will be on the panel for this @feministgreens.bsky.social fringe event on Sexism in Healthcare. Join us if you can! 💚
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Good to see Foreign Secretary presenting the findings of the suppressed Joint Intelligence Report on ecosystem collapse to other governments. But when is it going to be shared with the rest of us? We can’t prepare for what we don’t know - it should be published in full
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Our Green Party is people powered. We have the energy and the momentum to win in Holborn & St Pancras. We're about to go up a gear. We'll be out every day and evening and we need you! 🫵🏽 Sign up here: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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Labour are worried. They've had the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor, the Mayor of London & the Prime Minister out in Holborn & St Pancras but we've got you. Hundreds of thousands of you who care & are making a difference! Donate today to help us win: donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/london-by-el...