by Max Hope | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog
Tales of the City, a 10-book series about life in San Francisco from the 1970s onwards are my all-time favourite books. The characters created by Armistead Maupin have accompanied me through all of my adult life. Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver. Mary Ann Singleton. Brian...
by Max Hope | Apr 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, the Supreme Court in the UK ruled that the legal definition of ‘a woman’ is based on biology, and biology alone. Not self-identification. Not gender recognition certificates. Not even gender reassignment surgery. What about intersex folk? Er, don’t know....
by Max Hope | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog
Preface From my vantage point, in a chair rather precariously balanced at the top of a ladder, my eyes survey the landscape. There is water, so much water, more than I have ever seen here before. The pools at the bottom of the hill are expanding, and I see birds, and...
by Max Hope | Apr 15, 2025 | Blog
Max speaks to Marina Robb as part of the Wild Minds Podcast. Episode 11: Rewilding Education...
by Max Hope | Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
She is walking down the street, her arms swinging by her side. No, hang on, that was the other world, the one when people were defined by gender, by pronouns assigned to them at birth. Was this person – this lively child with mischief and magic in her eyes – was...
