Kate Fox
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
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July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Still time to grab a FREE ticket for our online event this Thurs 'Poetry for all? Reviving poetry's radical vision’, with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, Testament + Smokestack Books' Andy Croft, chaired by @gailrenard.bsky.social, 7-8pm
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Are you a poet? Or know any who might wish to take part in our Bylines Network Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025?
The winner will be picked by our esteemed judges Kate Fox and Ian McMillan.
Submission window: 23 June - 6 July 2025
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social
The winner will be picked by our esteemed judges Kate Fox and Ian McMillan.
Submission window: 23 June - 6 July 2025
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social
Bylines Network Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025 - Bylines Network
Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025 is open for entries from 23 June until 6 July. Results will be announced in August
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June 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Are you a poet? Or know any who might wish to take part in our Bylines Network Sky Hawkins poetry prize 2025?
The winner will be picked by our esteemed judges Kate Fox and Ian McMillan.
Submission window: 23 June - 6 July 2025
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social
The winner will be picked by our esteemed judges Kate Fox and Ian McMillan.
Submission window: 23 June - 6 July 2025
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social
Perhaps as a consequence of attending a British comprehensive school in the 1990s (hot buildings)
I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.
I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.
June 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Perhaps as a consequence of attending a British comprehensive school in the 1990s (hot buildings)
I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.
I don’t really think I should have to do any work when it’s over 22degrees C outside.
Shop server who I’m fairly sure was one of my neurokin:
“I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “
“I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “
June 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Shop server who I’m fairly sure was one of my neurokin:
“I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “
“I like to do this challenge every week. It’s called ‘The week’ “
Also, if I’m still saying “ Ooh it’s like Knightrider!” about modern vehicles in 2065, please know I first started saying it back in about 2017.
June 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Also, if I’m still saying “ Ooh it’s like Knightrider!” about modern vehicles in 2065, please know I first started saying it back in about 2017.
I don’t really know how to use Bluesky I’ll be honest, but I did realise it felt the most suitable platform to register my appreciation for the North East England phrase for “make believe” or “made up”:
“Makey on”
It DOES something.
“Makey on”
It DOES something.
June 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I don’t really know how to use Bluesky I’ll be honest, but I did realise it felt the most suitable platform to register my appreciation for the North East England phrase for “make believe” or “made up”:
“Makey on”
It DOES something.
“Makey on”
It DOES something.
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The second part of the interview I did with @scrappapertiger.bsky.social for Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws (with Nic King and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social) is finally out!
We talked about privilege, mutual aid (particularly about @amase.org.uk) and community…
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We talked about privilege, mutual aid (particularly about @amase.org.uk) and community…
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Special Guests: Fergus and Sonny Part 2
Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · Episode
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May 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The second part of the interview I did with @scrappapertiger.bsky.social for Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws (with Nic King and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social) is finally out!
We talked about privilege, mutual aid (particularly about @amase.org.uk) and community…
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We talked about privilege, mutual aid (particularly about @amase.org.uk) and community…
open.spotify.com/episode/2Opf...
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☀️ Brilliant Bank Holiday Sunday w/ @robinince.bsky.social being normally weird & wonderfully lovely chatting to @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social - pure joy, energy + inspiration 🫶 we 💜 his new book & we’ve signed ones for you!
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May 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
☀️ Brilliant Bank Holiday Sunday w/ @robinince.bsky.social being normally weird & wonderfully lovely chatting to @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social - pure joy, energy + inspiration 🫶 we 💜 his new book & we’ve signed ones for you!
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Feeling I’m an expert on the Papal election process because I watched Conclave -quite similar to how I become a football expert every four years after I’ve watched 3 World Cup games.
April 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Feeling I’m an expert on the Papal election process because I watched Conclave -quite similar to how I become a football expert every four years after I’ve watched 3 World Cup games.
Running another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia”
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
April 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Running another “Speaking Differently: Writing Workshops for Weird Times” this aft online & can’t wait to look at “solastalgia”
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
( climate grief) & Wendell Berry’s beautiful poem The Peace of Wild Things (“taxed with no forethought of grief”).
Running a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe!
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Running a new kind of writing workshop online this afternoon at 1.30pm GMT. Have called it “Speaking differently: a writing workshop for weird times”. Now realise it’s hard to describe!
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
Basically prompts will be from resistant but hopeful writers -eg bell hooks.
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Very cool issue of a Quaker journal in the UK features autistic stand-up comic,author and presenter @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Check out A Place of Unmasking. www.friendsjournal.org/issue-catego.... #WAAM #AutisticElders #SensoryProcessing
Neurodiversity
March 2025
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April 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Very cool issue of a Quaker journal in the UK features autistic stand-up comic,author and presenter @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Check out A Place of Unmasking. www.friendsjournal.org/issue-catego.... #WAAM #AutisticElders #SensoryProcessing
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As well as the online event on Weird Pride Day itself (the 4th of March) with @fergus.oolong.co.uk, @josielong.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, we've got Weird Pride Edinburgh happening at Shrub Co-op on the 7th of March!
#WeirdPride
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#WeirdPride
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2025 - Weird Pride Day
Welcome to Weird Pride Day Five, happening on 2025-03-04. Since 2021, the 4th of March has been a day to celebrate all the ways there are to be weird without hurting anyone else. Humans are a strange ...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
As well as the online event on Weird Pride Day itself (the 4th of March) with @fergus.oolong.co.uk, @josielong.bsky.social @robinince.bsky.social and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, we've got Weird Pride Edinburgh happening at Shrub Co-op on the 7th of March!
#WeirdPride
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#WeirdPride
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✨Neuromes✨
Interesting new word meaning "the mind equivalent of a biome"
Inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, see @stimpunks.org's post below to find out more! 👇
Interesting new word meaning "the mind equivalent of a biome"
Inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, see @stimpunks.org's post below to find out more! 👇
New glossary page about neuromes inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
"What is a neurome? It’s the mind equivalent of a biome. It’s a space where quirky minds can thrive and flourish. Where they accepted in their diversity and their associated sensory needs."
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"What is a neurome? It’s the mind equivalent of a biome. It’s a space where quirky minds can thrive and flourish. Where they accepted in their diversity and their associated sensory needs."
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Neurome
What is a neurome? It’s the mind equivalent of a biome. It’s a space where quirky minds can thrive and flourish. Where they accepted in their diversity and their associated sensory needs.
stimpunks.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
✨Neuromes✨
Interesting new word meaning "the mind equivalent of a biome"
Inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, see @stimpunks.org's post below to find out more! 👇
Interesting new word meaning "the mind equivalent of a biome"
Inspired by @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, see @stimpunks.org's post below to find out more! 👇
Deepseek is very supportive of me thinking that AI companies could probably do with anti-bias training around place & class
(and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆
(and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆
February 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Deepseek is very supportive of me thinking that AI companies could probably do with anti-bias training around place & class
(and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆
(and helpfully imagined a worst-case scenario of newspaper headlines; “Chatbots Insult Yorkshire Grandmas”). 😆
I ask deepseek to imagine what AI designed by octopuses would be like.
It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with:
“(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”
It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with:
“(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”
February 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I ask deepseek to imagine what AI designed by octopuses would be like.
It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with:
“(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”
It concludes its (beautiful) thought experiment with:
“(Now I’m imagining an octopus version of OpenAI, funded by pearl heists and run out of a shipwreck. *Thanks for the fun prompt!*)”
How to find your neurome (a biome for your brain). & is it harder to find in neuronormative spaces like campuses?
My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world).
Link: katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronorma...
My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world).
Link: katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronorma...
Neuronormativity, neuromes, campuses and finding a safe space
Really it's about community that works for you
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January 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
How to find your neurome (a biome for your brain). & is it harder to find in neuronormative spaces like campuses?
My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world).
Link: katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronorma...
My latest Substack (Bigger on the Inside-ongoingly about neuroqueering the world).
Link: katewriter.substack.com/p/neuronorma...
Rollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution.
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
January 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Rollercoaster of a day with the new Chinese open source AI “deepseek”. We started off plotting revolution.
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
Then I watched it censor its own political poem in front of me.
News broke about it tanking American tech shares.
Ended the day with it suggesting an itinerary for a live AI/poetry event
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Catching up with a bit of @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social & Nic King's magnificent podcast, Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws.
This one's on glimmers, which (if you don't know) are the opposite of triggers.
Restoration and joy!
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This one's on glimmers, which (if you don't know) are the opposite of triggers.
Restoration and joy!
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Finding Glimmers
Podcast Episode · Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · 12/26/2024 · 30m
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January 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Catching up with a bit of @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social & Nic King's magnificent podcast, Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws.
This one's on glimmers, which (if you don't know) are the opposite of triggers.
Restoration and joy!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
This one's on glimmers, which (if you don't know) are the opposite of triggers.
Restoration and joy!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Off on a mostly silent Buddhist retreat for a week which feels like an apt start to the year (have bought a “tickless” alarm clock & torch as my phone will be off).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
January 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Off on a mostly silent Buddhist retreat for a week which feels like an apt start to the year (have bought a “tickless” alarm clock & torch as my phone will be off).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
A reminder before I go that my neuro-affirming creative writing courses are still open to book (starting 26/27th January).
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“This meeting could have been an email”
- Ancient Autistic proverb
- Ancient Autistic proverb
January 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“This meeting could have been an email”
- Ancient Autistic proverb
- Ancient Autistic proverb
Leonard Cohen said if you marry the spirit of your generation, you’ll be widowed in the next.
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Leonard Cohen said if you marry the spirit of your generation, you’ll be widowed in the next.
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
(I’d quite like to quote everything in Christophe Lebold’s brilliant biography)
My Bluesky feed: wholesome things about the winter solstice and Christmas.
My X feed: Drones! Orbs! Aliens! End of the World!
Quite enjoying both actually. Gemini thing.
My X feed: Drones! Orbs! Aliens! End of the World!
Quite enjoying both actually. Gemini thing.
December 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
My Bluesky feed: wholesome things about the winter solstice and Christmas.
My X feed: Drones! Orbs! Aliens! End of the World!
Quite enjoying both actually. Gemini thing.
My X feed: Drones! Orbs! Aliens! End of the World!
Quite enjoying both actually. Gemini thing.
Humans give birth to other humans with different types of intelligence to them & keep assuming the new humans want/think/operate the same as they do.
Humans produce Artificial Intelligence -& once again astonishment ensues.
Humans produce Artificial Intelligence -& once again astonishment ensues.
December 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Humans give birth to other humans with different types of intelligence to them & keep assuming the new humans want/think/operate the same as they do.
Humans produce Artificial Intelligence -& once again astonishment ensues.
Humans produce Artificial Intelligence -& once again astonishment ensues.
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'There needs to be an explicit message about Northern culture having value.'
The final episode of Northern Voices for 2024 features the wonderful @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social on Sycamore Gap, valuing culture, academia and Northern identity.
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The final episode of Northern Voices for 2024 features the wonderful @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social on Sycamore Gap, valuing culture, academia and Northern identity.
on.soundcloud.com/NFDGTcnSBUoP...
December 19, 2024 at 12:29 AM
'There needs to be an explicit message about Northern culture having value.'
The final episode of Northern Voices for 2024 features the wonderful @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social on Sycamore Gap, valuing culture, academia and Northern identity.
on.soundcloud.com/NFDGTcnSBUoP...
The final episode of Northern Voices for 2024 features the wonderful @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social on Sycamore Gap, valuing culture, academia and Northern identity.
on.soundcloud.com/NFDGTcnSBUoP...