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Amy Kenyon
@amykaye.bsky.social
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writer/historian/photographer she/her https://amykenyon.net/ (books etc) https://amykenyon.substack.com/ (essays, history/archive, postcard writings) https://thelightedfield.wordpress.com/ (illustrated stories - with songs
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Nov 14
#authors #writing #photography #history/theory
Truth telling, storytelling, and where they might have gone...
A bit of housekeeping
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 3d
Wild child, ghosts, and a haunted house #film #Halloween #AGhostStory #DavidLowery #MeetMeInStLouis
Wild child, ghosts, and a haunted house
Two films for Halloween
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 9d
A new one - with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #photography
receptivity and photography
Kaja Silverman’s work has long been a gift and I look forward to Volumes Two and Three of her History of Photography. Meanwhile, I am drawn repeatedly to Volume One: The Miracle of Analogy, which focu...
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 11d
#ThePumpkinTree #RayBradbury
Postcard #13
1972: Ray Bradbury
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 11d
#October #RayBradbury
October country
“If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that’s long ago.
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 12d
A new post, about an old post, and about some things that happened. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
Walking away
...and time passes
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 15d
Lost in the times of a photograph
#photography #memory #archiving
Lost in the times of a photograph
“It’s a really beautiful thing how lost we are, and we want to get even more lost sometimes.” (David Lynch)
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · 24d
A short story. Love gone sour, an old song, and the ghosts of '49ers. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
A Relic of Bygone Days
I live out west in a place made by the Gold Rush. Call me Absalom Townsend, for instance. Think of me as Absalom, sepia-toned founder of a mining town called Rough and Ready.[1] Picture me as Absal…
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Sep 29
A new one. #ErieCanal #Michigan history #BruceSpringsteen's birthday
The Erie Canal Song
and a snowstorm long ago
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Derek Turnbull @derekturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 22
If you ever needed proof of the damage the far right, it’s politicians and its press has done to the UK, here you go.
bylinetimes.bsky.social Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Aug 21
🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?

The silence of mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov

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Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Aug 20
A new one... With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. XX
Ghost stories
Something to tell us, something that used to be
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jul 29
#MoonRiver #BillieEilish #ghosts
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
Moon River
I can’t know what made Billie Eilish pick up this old song.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 7
Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!
sineadcarter.bsky.social Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · Jul 4
I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]
As part of my PhD research on space (i.e the built environment/social space) and feminism during the British Women’s Liberation Movement, I’m looking for oral history participants to interview about their experiences. You don’t need to have thought about space and your activism- I’m just interested in your experiences! If you were involved in Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism, or feminist architecture from c.1968-1990 (ish), you can contact me on this platform or email me: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk. Please share with anyone you think may have contacts!
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jul 7
I've just signed the @weownit.org.uk petition to say NO to private finance deals for Neighbourhood Health Centres. Will you join me?
Tell Wes Streeting - put patients first, don't put our NHS at the mercy of new PFI deals

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No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services | We Own It
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jul 4
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
Fourth of July, 2025
I can't fathom the persistence of Trump.
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 27
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Songbook: For All We Know
For all we know, we may never meet again. So goes the 1934 song, a classic love song, at first glance.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jun 26
“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful”

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Third-country asylum plan shows UK is in ‘a very dark place’, says Albanian PM
Exclusive: Edi Rama attacks British return hubs scheme as looking for ‘places to dump immigrants’
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John Turner @warstones2023.bsky.social · Jun 23
backzack.com #BackZack
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 23
I'm 70. Trans-inclusive. Feminist. Also a historian.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jun 23
The Gaza Health Ministry has released an updated list of the more than 55k people *confirmed* to have been killed by Israel.

The first 21 pages are the names of dead babies.

More than 17k of those listed are children.
@sharifkouddous Health ministry has released an updated list of names, ages, DoB, ID number of 55,202 Palestinians confirmed killed in Gaza bet. Oct 7, 2023 & June 15, 2025. On 1st page, age starts at "less than 1 day" — by page 21 it's still at 11 months old. Total of 17,121 children's names. [screenshots of single-spaces lists of names] 5:05 AM • 6/23/25 • 5.7K Views
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 22
Sign the petition to Keir Starmer: Oppose Trump's war on Iran
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Petition: Keir Starmer – Oppose Trump’s war on Iran
Stop Trump Coalition
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 17
One from the archives, for summer. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
Summer Wine
one from the archives, for the season...
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 16
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Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS!
Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...
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Amy Kenyon @amykaye.bsky.social · Jun 12
#archive #archiving #history #art
Romancing the Archive
The personal and the political
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Indivisible London UK @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social · Jun 6
No Tyrants, No Clowns

Join us at the US Embassy in London at 3pm on Sat, 14 June!

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No Tyrants Day! London UK
?️ Saturday 14 June ⏰ 3pm - 5pm BST ?US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, SW11 7US, London, UK We don't put up with mad tyrants. NO TYRANTS is an international day of action and mass mobilization in...
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 5
Someone really ought to tell the Labour Party that there are potential Chairs of the EHRC that don't come burdened with transphobic baggage. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Government announces preferred candidate for Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson is the government's preferred candidate for Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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