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Amy Kenyon
@amykaye.bsky.social
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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Basically Trump’s Davos speech is just a thousand Twitter comments in a trench coat.
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Watch the #Starmer govt. back down. The signs are already there. Shameful.
"There is a reason why not just Trump but previous American administrations have been very keen to secure some control over what happens in the arctic region"

Lisa Nandy is saying this as the US eyes up Greenland. Is this a govt gearing up to oppose the US or to roll over?
January 18, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Magical thinking... one year later. This piece was written soon after the death of David Lynch last year. #DavidLynch #BigBoy #suburbia #Oz... and more
Magical thinking...
with thanks to David Lynch
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
"There is no such thing as security for any Nation—or any individual- in a world ruled by the principles of #gangsterism."
Franklin S Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, December 9, 1941
January 11, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The Fate of Truth
Minneapolis, 2026
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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How quickly Starmer the Trump Whisperer became Starmer the Trump Appeaser.
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Starmer being as Starmer as you can possibly be
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
A song for New Year's Eve #RememberMe #BobDylan #ScottyandLulu
A song for New Year's Eve
The sun’s going down for the last time in 2025.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A new one. The #stereoscope and #photography. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
Double Vision (part 2)
The Stereoscope
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For my grandad who cried when he heard the cheesy song ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’. We teased him a little. But now I think, well, how little we know.

Re-posting this archival piece for Fred Granger, and that old song that always seemed to break his heart anew. #Detroit #automobiles #Eloise
Postcard #17
Sad stories with automobiles driving through them
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December 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Is it the beginning of the end? I don't know.
Some thoughts from the archives... #ResistingTrump

The Gangster Presidency and the #AmericanDream open.substack.com/pub/amykenyo...
The Gangster Presidency and the American Dream
In his address to the joint session of Congress, Trump took ownership of one of our enduring, if conflicted tropes when he declared that “the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever befo...
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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We do not believe trans excluding individuals speak for most women. Many of us want inclusion, compassion, and a better way forward.

Not In Our Name.

Add your voice by signing and sharing our letter:
🔗 notinourname.org.uk/
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
notinourname.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I've just signed this petition. I think it's really important for all of us - it's a national scandal. Will you support care workers who are taking action against Reform's plans to cut vital care services in Lancashire? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ha...
Hands off our homes - support Lancashire care workers fighting back!
Will you support these care workers taking action against Lancashire's Reform Council to fight for residents and keep their homes open?
www.megaphone.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A seasonal post from the archives - a revised piece about a revised song. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
Have yourself a Christmas song
(a seasonal one from the archives)
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is appalling. And the active participation of 'gender critical' feminism makes it worse. #notmyfeminism. I see nothing feminist in the wilful persecution of others. Now, more than ever, cis feminists need to stand by our trans sisters, and all transgender people.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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going door to door making people hate the administration
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"with utmost regret and sadness" we roll over at the first sign of pressure

The Some Women's Institute
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
a later time and place
A new one. With thanks to readers and subscribers. AmyK
#NorthamptonMassachusetts #leaving-homesickness
a later time and place
aka Postcard #21: Northampton, Massachusetts / 1970s
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Double vision

A new one... with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. AmyK xx
Double vision
and other matters
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Postcard #31
Thanksgiving 1976: Massachusetts
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November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Archiving
Amy Kenyon's newsletter about memory and history in the present
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
First published for the film's 80th birthday. #filmhistory #archiving #rustbelt #WizardofOz
Archive of a Rust Belt Girl
The Wizard of Oz
amykenyon.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.

Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM