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
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
Basically Trump’s Davos speech is just a thousand Twitter comments in a trench coat.
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?
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
Watch the #Starmer govt. back down. The signs are already there. Shameful.
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
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January 17, 2026 at 10:27 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
"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
Franklin S Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, December 9, 1941
January 11, 2026 at 8:57 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
Franklin S Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, December 9, 1941
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How quickly Starmer the Trump Whisperer became Starmer the Trump Appeaser.
January 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
How quickly Starmer the Trump Whisperer became Starmer the Trump Appeaser.
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Starmer being as Starmer as you can possibly be
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Starmer being as Starmer as you can possibly be
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
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December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A new one. The #stereoscope and #photography. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
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
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
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
Re-posting this archival piece for Fred Granger, and that old song that always seemed to break his heart anew. #Detroit #automobiles #Eloise
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...
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...
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December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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...
Some thoughts from the archives... #ResistingTrump
The Gangster Presidency and the #AmericanDream open.substack.com/pub/amykenyo...
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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/
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
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/
Not In Our Name.
Add your voice by signing and sharing our letter:
🔗 notinourname.org.uk/
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
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...
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)
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December 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A seasonal post from the archives - a revised piece about a revised song. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
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.
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
New rules on access to single-sex spaces could pose a significant risk to the mental health of trans and non-binary people, according to 15 of the UK’s most respected mental charities.
Organisations including Samaritans, Mind, Centre for Mental Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have written to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, to express their “deep concern” about guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that is awaiting approval from the government. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
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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:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
going door to door making people hate the administration
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"with utmost regret and sadness" we roll over at the first sign of pressure
The Some Women's Institute
The Some Women's Institute
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"with utmost regret and sadness" we roll over at the first sign of pressure
The Some Women's Institute
The Some Women's Institute
a later time and place
A new one. With thanks to readers and subscribers. AmyK
#NorthamptonMassachusetts #leaving-homesickness
A new one. With thanks to readers and subscribers. AmyK
#NorthamptonMassachusetts #leaving-homesickness
a later time and place
aka Postcard #21: Northampton, Massachusetts / 1970s
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December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
a later time and place
A new one. With thanks to readers and subscribers. AmyK
#NorthamptonMassachusetts #leaving-homesickness
A new one. With thanks to readers and subscribers. AmyK
#NorthamptonMassachusetts #leaving-homesickness
Double vision
A new one... with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. AmyK xx
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
Double vision
A new one... with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. AmyK xx
A new one... with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. AmyK xx
Archiving
Amy Kenyon's newsletter about memory and history in the present
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November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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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-...
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
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-...
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...