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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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
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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
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Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads.
Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>
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Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>
act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...
Stop the attack on family reunion: Email the Home Secretary
URGENT: The Government is cracking down on refugee families’ right to be together. As part of a major immigration shake-up, the Home Secretary plans to restrict the right to family life, protected und...
act.safepassage.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If we don’t act now, many child refugees will be left in war zones or unsafe camps, away from their mums and dads.
Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>
act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...
Email the Home Secretary now to stop the suspension of refugee family reunion – it just takes a minute >>
act.safepassage.org.uk/email-home-s...
Postcard #30
A small curation for Remembrance Day. It's about the moment the guns fell silent, sound and memory, history, the Western Front, and Laurie Anderson's 'sound table' installation.
A small curation for Remembrance Day. It's about the moment the guns fell silent, sound and memory, history, the Western Front, and Laurie Anderson's 'sound table' installation.
Postcard #30
November 11, 1918 / Armistice Soundwave
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November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Postcard #30
A small curation for Remembrance Day. It's about the moment the guns fell silent, sound and memory, history, the Western Front, and Laurie Anderson's 'sound table' installation.
A small curation for Remembrance Day. It's about the moment the guns fell silent, sound and memory, history, the Western Front, and Laurie Anderson's 'sound table' installation.
See AmyKenyon.Substack.com for my latest post. xx
Amy Kenyon (@amyk)
A new one. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
See AmyKenyon.Substack.com for my latest post. xx
Postcard #29: Penny for the Guy / London 1981
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #BonfireNight
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #BonfireNight
Postcard #29
Penny for the Guy: London, 1981
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November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Postcard #29: Penny for the Guy / London 1981
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #BonfireNight
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #BonfireNight
Wild child, ghosts, and a haunted house
Two films for Halloween
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October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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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October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A new one - with thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. #photography
Postcard #13
1972: Ray Bradbury
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October 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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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October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A new post, about an old post, and about some things that happened. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. xx
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…
thelightedfield.wordpress.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A short story. Love gone sour, an old song, and the ghosts of '49ers. With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
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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August 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A new one... With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers. XX
Moon River
I can’t know what made Billie Eilish pick up this old song.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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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!
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: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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!
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
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
Tell Wes Streeting - put patients first, don't put our NHS at the mercy of new PFI deals
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
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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July 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
Tell Wes Streeting - put patients first, don't put our NHS at the mercy of new PFI deals
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
Fourth of July, 2025
I can't fathom the persistence of Trump.
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July 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
With thanks, as ever, to readers and subscribers.
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“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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June 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
“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”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Amy Kenyon
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.
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.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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.
The first 21 pages are the names of dead babies.
More than 17k of those listed are children.
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