Max Morris

@maxmorris.bsky.social

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Green Oxford City Councillor. Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology @ Oxford Brookes Uni focusing on class, gender & sexuality. Views my own. They/them.

The Green Group in Oxford City Council holding trans and progress pride flags
Max in the Cool Space upstairs at the East Oxford Community Centre
A sign reading "POLITE NOTICE: PLEASE DO NOT"
Taking a lift selfie in Manchester Art Gallery
Max by Canal Street in Manchester
Protesters outside Linacre College
All 13 Green Party Oxford City Councillors at the entrance to Town Hall
Max wearing a pink birthday badge and green glasses
Magdalen Road Village summer festival - Sat 6th June 9am - 4pm.
"What is anarchism? Anarchism is about us looking after each other, having control over our own lives, working towards a world where we don't have bosses, landlords, the state or corporations telling us what to do or making decisions that harm us. Many of us practice anarchism every day without realising it."
Max holding a copy of the weekend Oxford Mail's Local Elections 2026 Special with the headline "Out of Control" above a photo of Green campaigners celebrating in the Town Hall and subheading "Greens Cheer City Success"
Green campaigners and councillors in Oxford Town Hall
Max and Alex enjoying their wraps outside Aleppo's Falafel
Green Party campaigners and councillors with Sushila Dhall in Jericho
Green Party campaigners with Cllr Lois Muddiman in West Oxford
Green Party activists in Marston
Carla with Oxford Green Party councillors, candidates, and members
Max presenting 'Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV' at the East Oxford Community Centre
Actors reading translated excerpts from speeches given by Ukrainian and Russian anti-war protesters such as Darya Kozyreva (pictured on the screen)
Max, Ahalya and Alex holding a "Vote Green" placard
Max wearing makeup, jewellery, and a sequined dress (lying down)
'FREE EVENT! Join us for the Donnington Community Garden Planting Day. Location: Next to Donington Doorstep, Townsend Square, Oxford, OX4 4BB. Date: Friday 17 April 2026. Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm'
Oxford canvassers holding "Vote Green Party" posters
Professor Michael Lister presenting. 'Key Points: (1) Policymakers mostly don't listen to academics; (2) But they do sometimes listen to people; Therefore (3) it's important to excavate and promote the diversity of public voices'.
'Think Human, 16 April 2026, Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV: Join us for a discussion of how public health campaigns and media representations reflect the realities of living with HIV. If you want to learn from people challenging outdated stigma, then this is the event for you!'
Green party activists in St Clement's, Oxford
A seedling growing from a washing up sponge
Max wearing a colourful jumper that blends into the graffiti behind
Max and Alex canvassing in East Oxford
Three textbooks on the sociology of health and illness
Max speaking at the Oxford4TransRights demonstration in Bonn Square
Alex and Max wearing colourful paper crowns
Alex presenting his book in the Law School at the University of Exeter
'International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers with The Josephine Butler Society, Wednesday 17th December 2025, St Anne's Church, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London, W1D 6AF, 3-5pm (Doors open at 2:30pm). Hosted by our Chair Del Beach-Campbell. Speakers: Dr Rosa Vince (University of Leeds) - Feminist approaches to sexual objectification, Dr Hanne M Stegeman (University of Exeter) - Webcam Sex Work across Europe, Dr Max Morris (Oxford Brookes University) - Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy. Panel discussion and Q & A. Refreshments provided. Please join us to remember, learn, share and celebrate.'
Max and Alex taking a selfie by Farmoor Reservoir
'Max Morris: Sociologist of class, gender, and sexuality'
Green Party Councillors Rosie Rawle and Max Morris sat at/besides the new benches and planters
Max and Indigo with a glowing "1000" made from recycled plastics
Oxford college flying a trans flag
Green Party Councillor Max Morris, who attended the march, told Cherwell: “While the media fixates on Farage, ordinary people are standing in unity with migrants and refugees. Green Party councillors, candidates, and members showed up in big numbers to oppose the rise of fascism alongside the government’s disastrous attempts to appease the far-right”
Max speaking at a lecturn
Councillor Max Morris, Green Party member of Oxford City Council, told Cherwell: “I was at today’s counter-protest to resist the far right and Posie Parker’s hateful rhetoric, both in a personal capacity as a non-binary person and as a local councillor.”
Max holding a "Down with the Fash" placard in a crowd of counter-protestors
Max in a woodland
Max and Alex on Bournemouth Pier
Max trying on a retro jumper in a changing room mirror
"1. A really interesting—and extremely well-written— analysis of sex work, sex worker rights, and queer liberation politics. The reviewers both agree that this paper is as close to perfect as one would hope. While both have made minor comments throughout, they hope that these clarificatory queries will further strengthen your already stellar paper. In particular, they both flagged the need to expand a little on the social backgrounds of your interview subjects as this would add depth to, and contextualize, your analysis of respectability politics. On a personal note, I particularly enjoyed reading about your participants’ experiences as they navigated identity in a “post-identity” era. 2. We ask that you add an updated abstract and indicate some key words with your abstract that could relate to these themes..."
A pile of Max's book, Not Sex Work, on a Pride Progress flag
"1 Defining Sex, Work, and Sex Work Not Sex Work This book begins with a question: what is sex work? Carol Leigh coined the term in 1979 when attending a feminist workshop on the 'Sex Use Industry' by suggesting that the event's title should be changed to 'Sex Work Industry'. As she recalled, 'How could I sit amid other women as a political equal when I was being objectified like that, described only as something used, obscuring my role as actor and agent in the transaction?' (Leigh, 1998, p. 230). Today, sex work is the preferred term within both activist and academic networks to characterise a diverse range of paid sexual behaviours, both direct and indirect, replacing more traditional terms such as prostitution or whoring by offering'a more affirmative and inclusive term for erotic labour within feminist movements' (Brooks-Gordon et al., 2021, p. 812). I too adopt this definition of sex work as my starting point. Replacing older, gendered, and more pejorative labels such as 'call girl", 'harlot", 'hooker', 'prostitute', or 'whore', alongside those used for (typically younger) men such as 'rent boy', the term sex worker is also better suited to the now dominant research paradigm for understanding commercial sex: the social and economic model (see, e.g, Wolkowitz et al., 2013). This model places greater emphasis on how sex work can be understood as a form of labour like (m)any other(s), including various forms of expertise and exploitation (Smith & Mac, 2018). Relatedly, drawing on the critical 'makeshift economy' approach to social history, Walkowitz (2016) noted how socialist feminists have interpreted 'prostitution as sexual labour, an integral part of the survivalist strategy of the poor over many centuries', while adding that the..."
Max sunbathing on a beach
View from the Ashmolean's rooftop restaurant
Max in central Oxford
Max relaxing in Christ Church Meadow
Alex and Max at Oxford Pride
The book cover of 'Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era' by Max Morris, part of the 'Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale' series by Routledge.
Alex and Max at a polling station
Max speaking into a megaphone at a trans rights protest in Bonn Square, Oxford