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Over to you, Babycakes
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...
The truth about queer nature
It’s been a full week since the Supreme Court made its landmark ruling about gender. In case you’ve missed it, what happened is that a group from Scotland appealed a ruling that had been made in the Scottish courts about whether trans women could take places on Boards...
Life before the Equalities Act 2010
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....
Rewilding Education – the first chapter
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...
PODCAST: Wild Minds with Marina Robb
Max speaks to Marina Robb as part of the Wild Minds Podcast. https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/rewilding-education/
The night the pirates came
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 she a...