'Writing Weirdness' premières tomorrow (Weird Pride Day) at 3pm GMT! With @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, @jlimburg.bsky.social, @scrappapertiger.bsky.social and @robinince.bsky.social. youtu.be/Vc4Fzs8r6WQ?... bsky.app/profile/weir...

Writing Weirdness

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Weird Pride@weirdpride.day · 5mo ago

@robinince.bsky.social and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social will be joining us again, this time with fellow non-fiction poets @jlimburg.bsky.social and @scrappapertiger.bsky.social (all of whom are many other things besides poets).

#Poetry Rilke's poems and Paul Farley, Kate Fox, Griot Gabriel The Verb @R4TheVerb Sunday 17:10 BBC Radio 4 @imcmillan.bsky.social explores Rainer Maria Rilke's life advice, and is joined by Paul Farley, Griot Gabriel, @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social & Ulrich Baer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Rilke's life-changing poems and Paul Farley, Kate Fox, Griot Gabriel

Ian McMillan with Paul Farley, Griot Gabriel, Kate Fox and Ulrich Baer

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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 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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

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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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.

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’ “

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.

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… open.spotify.com/episode/2Opf...

Special Guests: Fergus and Sonny Part 2

Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · Episode

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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! www.forumbooksshop.com/product/norm...

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”).

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.

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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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 weirdpride.day/wpd2025

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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✨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! 👇

Stimpunks Foundation@stimpunks.org · last yr.

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." stimpunks.org/glossary/neu...

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”). 😆

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!*)”

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...

Neuronormativity, neuromes, campuses and finding a safe space

Really it's about community that works for you

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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

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...

Finding Glimmers

Podcast Episode · Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · 12/26/2024 · 30m

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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).

“This meeting could have been an email” - 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)

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.

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.

'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...

With trepidation (what if no one signs up) & anticipation (I want to run these courses & I know they’re needed!) I’ve launched two online neurodiversity & creative writing courses. Beginning & established writers welcome -I run a warm space… (Link here: linktr.ee/katefoxwrite...)

Paintings don’t usually cause me to have big feelings-which is why I used to love going to galleries with a big-feelinged person -vicarious joy. But the Van Gogh exhibition -I felt ALL the feelings-& a sort of electricity. VERY intense. Intrigued as to why.

Hooray! My episode with @scrappapertiger.bsky.social on Nic King & @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social's podcast, Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws, is out today! We talked about #monotropism, privilege, #WeirdPride and more... open.spotify.com/episode/3Ef5...

We Welcome Special Guests, Fergus & Sonny (Part One)

Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws · Episode

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