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Holly Antrum
@hollyantrum.bsky.social
She/Her. Artist, filmmaker and researcher (UK). Films distributed by LUX Artists' Moving Image. https://linktr.ee/holly___antrum

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All views are my own - currently finishing a PhD and a new film and book.
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Blue Has No Borders 💙 7.3.26

Excited to be bringing this recent documentary by Jessi Gutch to Stroud with Stroud Film Festival. We are so lucky that Jessi will be joining us to introduce her film.

Followed by Q&A with Jessi and myself + local speakers Rami Emad, Tom Herbert and Ronnie McGrath.
RT including for ALT text inclusion on the image 💚 Go Hannah
We are SO doing this. 💚🔥
February 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Rooting for Hannah Spencer to win in Gorton and Denton @greenparty.org.uk 🔥 Would love to hear more from her if she were an MP. She could make such a positive difference to the state of our politics.
February 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Blue Has No Borders 💙 7.3.26

Excited to be bringing this recent documentary by Jessi Gutch to Stroud with Stroud Film Festival. We are so lucky that Jessi will be joining us to introduce her film.

Followed by Q&A with Jessi and myself + local speakers Rami Emad, Tom Herbert and Ronnie McGrath.
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Around 100 people turned out to defend refugees in the counter demonstration yesterday despite the weather 👏 via @Solidarity_Glos on instagram
February 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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"I am writing to ask if you would consider giving the keynote in the evening?"

"Unfortunately, as you probably know, Universities don't pay speaker fees but we would, of course, pay any expenses"

Universities! Don't send freelancers these invites!

PS - I've been paid by many universities.
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Currently posting for charity and social enterprise @sanctuarybreaks.bsky.social to develop their presence on here - it's another hat I wear, but give them a follow! #refugeesarewelcomehere #retreat #sanctuary #ruralproject
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Obligatory Cotswold Snowdrop post. If you’re a nature lover who welcomes refugees, and is inspired by rural ways of making that a reality - then follow us to find out all the best kept secrets of these hills, and maybe some more snowdrops if you’re lucky.
February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
It was great to be part of this last publication of @jaws-journal.bsky.social in 2025. Looking forward to what the new editorial team brings forward in future editions!
JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students 10.1&2 is out now!

Including '‘‘My thistle-down personality": Disseminating selfhood in the diary and letters of Alice James' by Maëlle Nagot.
Association for Art History

Access the issue here 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jaws/10/1-2
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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there are so many people fighting, working, dreaming, organising, researching for a better world, keep up the good work, it is the only way <3
January 17, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Belated RIP to Béla Tarr. I haven't watched any of his films in years but intend to fix that, preferably in a cinema. Words by @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
January 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Storage goals!

Richard Torry’s shelving modifications
The World of Interiors
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar...
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
RIP Alison Knowles - beautiful obituary by Irene Revell - discretely reminded me why and whose history we drew from when we were reading Gertrude Stein's 'The Making of Americans' as a group in 2019-2020. @irenerevell.bsky.social 🙏
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025)

At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025) - The Wire
Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A marathon day spent in NFT1 yesterday for the Laura Mulvey Symposium at BFI Southbank, really great set of panels, and Laura being impressive as ever - in opening conversation with Oliver Fuke and later with closing remarks, then again introducing her film with Peter Wollen, The Bad Sister. Stamina
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Working on this (editorially) with Holly was a highlight of my year. Her concepts of ecstatic nearby and psycho-rurality still stir me in my day-to-day

🚀🚀🚀

doi.org/10.1386/jaws...
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Over on other channels I've announced my first peer review journal article. Seeing the finished article as a downloadable pdf it dawned on me how it actually feels to not only write in a personal capacity academically but also to put it out there.
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!

www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well Adam (9), wherever you are in Palestine - this is the 3D energy I feel your star needs!

Let Adam Live 🇵🇸 #letchildrenlive @savethechildrencym.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social

I took Adam's name to a vigil in September. This is my next offering for him. Viva Adam! 🔥

letchildrenlive.com/en
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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why is it so funny that it's lunch
them.us Them @them.us · Nov 14
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Last night I discovered a piece of my visual practice from 2010 uncredited as a homepage log in for Tumblr where I had first posted the image in the same year. The url also reflected it was used without credit.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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this is a basically undeniable take when reading robots in terms of their origin in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.
really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Our first plenary, 'Marxism, Literature, and Political Commitment' with Terry Eagleton, Angela Dimitrakaki and Lea Ypi, chaired by Esther Leslie is currently being live-streamed. Join!
Marxism, Literature, and Political Commitment
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM