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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OXFORD UNI STAFF & STUDENTS!!! Oxford has officially implemented the transphobic EHRC Code of Practice. PLEASE sign this open letter to commit to resisting it and supporting your trans colleagues, students, and peers. And please also share with Oxford acquaintances! www.oulgbtq.org/open-letter....

the words "Open Letter: Resisting the EHRC's Code of Practice in Oxford" on top of a trans flag, accompanied by the logos of Oxford for Trans Rights and Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society.

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Here's some art I've been doing on-and-off for about the last year, but have finally completed It's both a series of pictures and one very long book - more of it to come... This was my favourite poem as a child, and my child turned out to be keen on owls

A collage showing an illustrated title page of "the Owl and the pussycat" by Edward Lear, illustrated by Imogen Foxell. It's done in a mixture of collage and paint, and shows an excited pussycat and owl holding an oar, running across a green landscape in front of a rising sun

An illustration of the owl and the pussycat by Edward Lear, done in a mixture of collage and paint. They're at the beach, loading the pea green boat with honey, money, a guitar, a rubber ring, a telescope etc

The first two pages of the Owl and the Pussycat illustration (as shown in the previous images), but showing how the two pictures join together into one continuous picture

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Lantana Publishing @lantanapub.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Happy Birthday to Lantana! It is our eleventh year and we couldn't be more excited! 🎉 Thank you for all of your support and here's to many more years of inclusive books that celebrate ALL children! 🥳

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

More sketchbook diaries from Christmas: tree, sneaky trip to the theatre (minus toddler), playing in fountains at King's cross, and self portrait #kidlit #kidlitart #toddlerDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #dailySketchbook #soloMumByChoice #smbc

Sketch of the London eye against a pink sky and some buses near Waterloo Bridge - caption "sneaky trip to the theatre!"

Sketch of the toddler dragging me through a network of little fountains at King's Cross

Sketch of me sitting on the bed sketching in a purple sweater with excitingly messy hair. Caption: 12 years daily sketching (except 28th November 2019)

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

December sketchbook (posting slightly out of order!) - thanksgiving, the Bicycle Incident, playing by himself!, Christmas concert/party

Sketches of Thanksgiving dinner - friends carving turkey, multiple pies, teacups and a curly dog (caption: made it despite getting stuck in Birmingham New Street for an hour)

Sketches of a disastrous morning: child furious about everything (in my arms going "NO NO NO", I manage to get some toast in him while he looks at my phone; and then we're cycling and he tips over in his trailer - he's fine but I obviously feel dreadful; also I discover that the fruitbown has become a hideous mouldy soup

Sketch of toddler playing BY himself! With his TOYS! He's sitting in his toybox with his hair in a fetching ponytail (hairstyling by nursery)

Sketches of busy day with toddler - he's performing the dance of the sugarplum fairy at a concert; he builds himself a house in a clump of reeds and won't come out and then it turns out the reeds have scratched him and left a rash all over his face; cycle through Oxford to Christmas party where toddler eats crisps, I have some actual conversations and sausage rolls and we meet lesbian Santa - and cycle home in the dark

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Happy Christmas from the December diaries! Live nativity, merry-go-round, Christmas shopping (in fact my only Christmas shopping because we got ill), choir concert #kidlit #kidlitart #toddlerDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMumByChoice #smbc

Sketches from a live nativity event with my toddler: he's more interested than tinsel than live animals; he has a go at crafts and decorating biscuits; I enjoy a tiny child's attempt to pronounce "Quirinius" and a small king called Chloe; I feel unsure about this early introduction to Christianity, but I also tear up during Away in a Manger; all the Christmas fun pales into insignificance for toddler compared to a stick he found outside

Sketch of double decker blue white and gold carousel with horses, carriages and reindeer. A record of the best outing ever - when the toddler was off sick from nursery but feeling better, so I took him to ride the carousel at the Christmas market.

Sketchbook of my exhausting (and, as it turned out, only) day of Christmas shopping - I forced toddler to nursery, cycled to town, realised I'd left my phone at home, couldn't cope and turned round, went trouser and underwear shopping, ate a pie and a Ben's cookie, did actually quite a lot of Christmas shopping, tried to sketch and realised I'd left my pencil case at home, collapsed at home on the sofa before rushing off to collect toddler!

Sketch of my former choir in Christmassy attire singing "What ay shall I give him? Give my heart"

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Finally filled in www.gov.uk/government/c... on the last available day. I didn't answer every question, but I put something along these lines to most of the questions in the first section: "Copyright should be expanded to rule out AI uses, unless the creative opts in and is properly compensated."

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

November sketchbook: autumn leaves, a peaceful riverside scene, and disaster sleep day

A sketch of a toddler walking through some leaves, mostly obscured by various scribblings and messy prints of autumn leaves. Caption: this was meant to be an atmospheric drawing of S. wandering through yellow leaves, but it was hijacked

Sketch of the river (purple and green), a slightly threatening sky (purple and yellow) and the riverbank with sparse trees and a dogwalker in the distance

Text: "S. doesn't feel like waking up, then at 9.30 perks up and starts chatting about sewer pipes - so I take him to nursrey where he doesn't nap so he falls asleep on the sofa..." Then a sketch of toddler adorably passed out on the sofa. Then more text: "...and just when I was drawing this he woke up and rolled off. Managed to get some supper in him and put him to bed!"

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Sketchbook diaries from November: Science Oxford and fireworks; cat ears in the park; trying to think of good things in the wake of the US election (obviously the world has gone from bad to awful since then); printer wrestling and chocolate owls #kidlit #parentingComics #parenting #soloMumByChoice

Sketches of a trip to Science Oxford, where toddler enoys shooting scarfs up pipes, amazing waterplay, and liivng out his dreams of being an electrician; we bring chalk to the playground which all the children play with except my toddler; toddler doesn't enjoy first firework encounter (he's on my shoulders going "go back in house go back in house) but he does want to talk about them in his cot

sketches of toddler in a yellow raincoat and orange cat ears playing with sticks in the park (and looking very sweet)

Sketches in which I try and think of good things in the wake of the US election: the toddler, fixing my bike stand (go me), emergency crisps, buing a new torch from new hardware shop, fixing Vietnamese full stops, kitchen disco

Sketches of a day in November: morning with granny; rearranging leaves in Botanical Gardens; toddler has long nap while I literally wrestle the printer to get it to reliquish chewed paper; toddler very sad after nap but cheers up after two chocolate owls; we see the moon coming out from behind a cloud; owl-themed bedtime - both cuddling toy owls and reading Owl Babies

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

October sketchbook: illness season strikes in earnest,with suspected scabies and a sick toddler (content warning for sketches of my itchy back) #kidlit #toddlerDiaries #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMumByChoice #smbc

Sketches of the suspected scabies incident - I've got an itchy back (toddler is fine); doctor asks if toddler has been biting me and then suggest scabies (yuk!); I am distracted from work by reading about sealing everything in plastic bags; I cover toddler in cream while he's distracted by telly - it's surprisingly fine; I wash EVERYTHING on hygiene pluys setting and seal it in plastic bags

Sketch (one of many) of sick toddler asleep on my bed

Sketch of toddler happily wading through piles of autumn leaves (caption: "in a somewhat trying week of stomach bug/cold/scabies, a lovely autumn moment")

Sketches of a troublesome evening: 7.20 exhausted toddler falls asleep on my breast; 7.30 I make TERRIBLE mistkae of trying to move him from bed to cot; 8.20 he is wide awake and wants to play "Reading festival" (where I sing "loud music" and we dance under a duvet tent; 9.47 I eventually stroke him to sleep

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Finished animal Russian dolls for the toddler's second birthday #kidlit #russianDolls #matryoska #matryoshkadoll

Five hand-painted animal Russian dolls: bear, fox, cat, owl, bee

Five hand-painted animal Russian dolls seen from the back: bear, fox, cat, owl, bee

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Animal Russian dolls for toddler's second birthday - work in progress... #russianDolls #babushkaDolls #kidlit

Five blank Russian dolls with pencilled designs of animals on them

Russian dolls with white paint on them - you can see they're going to be a bear, fox, cat, owl, bee

Russian dolls with more paint on them - brown bear, orange fox, blue tabby cat, owl still not coloured, yellow bee

Unfinished animal Russian dolls with more colour and detail on them

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Sketchbook diaries: hanging out in my brother's garden, minimally successful swimming trip, Mary the bear, a big fan at our weekly playgroup! #kidlit #kidlitArt #toddlerDiaries #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMum #soloMumByChoice #smbc

Sketches of toddler and baby hanging out in garden in sunhats, a sandpit table, and a smart-looking tabby cat

Sketch of an attempt to take toddler swimming with a bird's eye view of a swimming pool - accidentally plunge into deep end, shallow end not much better, toddler calms down enough to tell me "it got water in it", and he enjoys watching the adult swimmers but concludes that it was "a bit scary" for now

Sketch of my old teddy bear Mary in a blue sweater and shirt, leaning on some blue mugs next to a small blue and white pot

Sketches of my toddler in a sunhat, rapturous at discovering a big fan at our local playgroup (along with a couple of sketches of other people's kids)

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

More sketches from holiday to Lake District in June - memorable trips, garden activities, swimming in Windermere, (fairly traumatic) journey home #kidlit #kidlitArt #toddlerDiaries #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMumByChoice #windermere

Sketches of memorable trips: waterfall, ferry trip, jumping on drains; and memorable meals (mostly carbs): hash browns, chips, peach and coconut scone, whatever poisoned me yesterday (could have been huge lotus cake)

Sketches of things toddler does in the garden: plays with hosepipe, points out nesting box, climbs "mountain" of steps, watering can, makes owl nests with sticks, puts sticks in sundials, crumbles pine leaves into scummy water, hunts for tiny snails, throws stones on his head

Sketch of people swimming in Windermere - also sailing boats and ducks

Sketch of journey home - toddler not keen on car and then throws up porridge and crips (thankfully mostly missing the hire car) - things get better with second breakfast of hash browns at Stockport station, playing with cement mixer in train corridor and I get to relax when he falls asleep on my lap; we get home and toddler says his longest even sentence ("more water big one") and I have a great sense of achievement at making it home!

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Sketchbook diaries from June: music in the playground, Dentistry and Disasters, hyper in the museum, Christmas tree in June... #kidlit #kidlitArt #toddlerDiaries #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMum #soloMumByChoice #smbc #soloParent

Sketch of guitarist and trombonist in the playground (playing "if you're silly and you know it blow a raspberry"), surrounded by parents and kids with various instruments

Sketches of "Dentistry and Disasters" - wake up very early to go to the dentist, only to discover that our appointment was 8.50 not 8.15 - S. is very patient and reads his booka about a "nornal bird" while my teeth are done. I get to use the "tiny air pipe" while the dentist counts his sixteen teeth. Bad news - I have to come back and have three expensive fillings - and then accidentally bite my mouth while eating a rice cake.

Sketches of a tiring day - full morning's activity before 9.30 - hoovering, tv, garden in the rain; take toddler to museum where he plays with card rack and eats a brownie and then becomes very hyper; suddenly contract a cold while doing mortgage admin

Sketch of garden - wooden chair, watering can, Christmas tree in a pot

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Farewell Graveyard Tree - one of many victims of Storm Darragh - we will miss you

Sketch of graveyard - spreading black pine and gravestones, with a woman (a friend of mine) sitting on war memorial sketching in the foreground

Long tall sketch in black and white of a black pine tree with swirling tangled branches

Photo of pine tree uprooted by the storm surrounded by safety tape, with toddler in pushchair looking on

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Collage I made for my nephew, and some details - I was going for "Noah’s ark in space with Shaun Tan vibes" #kidlit #collage #noahsArkInSpace

A collage on a bright blue background, showing a number of brightly coloured ships of different sizes sailing through swirly fluffy clouds, sun, moon, and shoals of fish. The largest boat contains a variety of fantastical animals, sheltered by umbrellas.

Detail of collage showing boat with lots of cogwheels and fanciful animals under umbrellas

Detail of collage showing smaller boats, powered by cogwheels, connected by bunting, sailing through clouds and a shoal of tiny fish

Detail of collage showing moon, clouds, fish, seahorse. Note that the rain falling from the cloud is sewn with string

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Work in progress photos for the collage I made for my newest nephew #kidlit #collage #workInProgress

Collage work in progress photo of details yellow/orange/bronze sun and swirly clouds on blue background

Collage work in progress photo - yellow boat with a couple of ornate purple/punk cogwheel on it, on a blue background with clouds

Collage work in progress photo: three tiny white/silver/purple fish - each a little bigger than my fingernail

Collage work in progress photo - tiny yellow boat with bronze portholes and red flag a little bigger than my fingernail

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sketchbook diaries from May: FINALLY meet my new baby nephew, logistics of getting extended family to the park; complementary scone; toddler and bubbles #kidlit #kidlitArt #toddlerDiaries #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMum #soloMumByChoice

Three sketches in black and white of a woman (my sister in law) breastfeeding a small baby with sticky-up hair

Diagram/sketches showing logistics of getting extended family to the park - family is split into three parties (each with one of the children) - we all eventually get to the park and home again, but the parties only barely overlap!

Sketch of tea and scone. Caption "at John Lewis while they run updates on my computer. But they have successfully diffused* my irritation by giving me a complementary tea and scone" *I probably meant defused

6 sketches of the toddler playing in the garden, sometimes with no trousers on - he is enjoying a watering can, a squirty bottle, and lots of bubbles

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Toddler diaries from April: the day I forgot the pram; Plagues of Egypt theme at toddler group (for Passover!); the day I forgot toddler's wellies; tree at work #kidlit #kidlitArt #babyDiaries #toddlerDiaries #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #comicDiaries #parenting #soloMumByChoice #smbc

Sketches of a silly day: cycle to work then decide I'm getting a cold and go back home; lose a bolt from my bicycle and eventually get it fixed in second bike shop I try; set off for nursery without the pram, so run all the way home and back to nursery again...

Sketches of a day with toddler: plagues of Egypt theme at toddler group (!!) - playdough frogs, gaffa tape flies, toy locusts, red water (and Chanukah stencils!); toddler busy making mud soup and playing with sticks; bedtime not so good (I'm saying "stop being a potato and go to sleep")

Sketches of another day with toddler: it's raining so morning at home where toddler tries to stand on his head on an ordnance survey map of West London; in the afternoon we go to the park and I realise I'm forgotten toddler's shoes - amazingly café find a spare pair of wellies from lost property, so that toddler can is able to build a nest for an owl in a tree

Sketch of a copper beech tree next to a fountain with two snoozing ducks on it

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sketchbook diaries from April: apple tree in bloom, boats on the river - then I got Covid - and the toddler found some pinecones #kidlit #kidlitArt #babyDiaries #toddlerDiaries #sketchbook #sketchbookDiaries #parentingComics #parenting #dailySketchbook #soloMum #soloMumByChoice #smbc #soloParent

Sketch of young apple tree in bloom plus a butterfly and a bee

Sketch of several boats on the river - rowers going at it hard - and a duck

Sketch of things in the kitchen (a plant, open tins of tomato, and cup of tea and half eaten digestive) - caption "Covid"

Sketch of eleven pine cones, in black and white

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Imogen Foxell @imogenfoxell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello (again) everyone! Nice to see you here! I'm a children's illustrator and writer (when not making dictionaries in my day job). Currently almost all my energy is focussed on toddler-wrangling, but one day I may draw other things again... #kidlit #parenting

Ink and watercolour drawing of me (black plait, wheeling bicycle) opening a blue front door with a key

Pen, watercolour, collage poster of the alphabet with a mythical beast for each letter: amphisbaena, bigfoot, caladrius, dragon, elf, firebird, gryphon, hydra, ifrit, jackalope, kraken, lamassu, merman, Nessie, ouroboros, Pegasus, questing beast, roc, sphinx, tanuki, unicorn, valkyrie, wyvern, Xiucoatl, yale, zouwu

Pen and watercolour drawing of 7 white cats in a snowy tree playing with stylized stars and moon

Sketches of my toddler saying some of his first words: mum, star, bubbles, up/down, mmm, highlighter, Henry (hoover), flower, Duggee, pshh (the noise I make when using contact lens solution)

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