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Prill Kemp

@apriliakemp.bsky.social
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🏰 Collections Conservation Assistant | Preventive Conservation of Collections & Historic Interiors, Architectural History, Social History, Political Thought, Folklore | Mother of Cats | Terrible Skater | Views My Own | She / Her | 🌱 📍Deal, Kent

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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Passion doesn't pay the bills." Prospect & @pcsunion.bsky.social members at the V&A were out in numbers last weekend for two rainy days on the picket line ☔ Prospect members at V&A East, V&A Storehouse and Young V&A have taken strike action in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Appalling behaviour. These brave volunteers save lives at sea, no questions asked. They deserve our support and gratitude, not hate and intimidation.
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🦇 Most UK bat species evolved to use trees as roosts, while many also hunt in woodland. Explore how bats use and rely on woodlands and trees in our 'Bats and woodland' pages: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bat...
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Dover and Deal Green Party @greensdoveranddeal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cllr Ingrid Dodd is the first Green Councillor on Dover District Council - a close result, with Reform coming second. Many thanks to all the team who worked so hard during the campaign. #GoGreen #GreenParty #HopeOverHate #GetGreensElected
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We're at the point where the Telegraph are literally making up quotes. I said when veg is sold for pennies in supermarkets, it's a sign someone's not being paid properly. Farmers being paid a pittance for their produce. Workers on less than a living wage in supermarkets.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have written to the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson, calling for the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice to be rejected. Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
Image is a letter. It reads: Dear Keir and Bridget,
Reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice
I am writing as Interim Women and Equalities lead of the Parliamentary Green Party to raise
serious concerns over proposed guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
which is not fit for purpose and will harm trans people living in the UK.
The Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations is the culmination of
years of well-funded campaigns to drive a minority group out of British public life. It sets out
a system of segregation where trans people are excluded from services and spaces that reflect
their gender, and in some cases also excluded from services and spaces that reflect their sex
assigned at birth. Where unisex facilities exist, trans people will be forced into them. Where
they do not exist, trans people will be left with nowhere to go.
Your own Equalities Impact Assessment1 on the code admits there will be a significant
impact on those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - from forcing trans
people to out themselves by using disabled toilets to putting trans women at greater risk of
sexual violence by making them use men’s services.
The Code of Practice is both cruel and confusing. Inconsistencies between the Code of
Practice and its Equalities Impact Assessment, the Gender Recognition Act and the European
Convention on Human Rights will leave organisations and service providers at risk of
litigation from all sides. Frontline staff in spaces like cafes, gyms, and offices will be forced
to police gender, whilst the costs of creating self-contained gender neutral facilities are
estimated by your advisors as reaching £600m, which the government is providing no
funding to cover.2 I am pleased to see associations, like the Women’s Institute and
Girlguiding, given a potential route to serving trans and cisgender women, but this does not
counteract the pain caused by the majority of the guidance.

Letter continued: By enacting this guidance, trans people will simply be scapegoated. Research by Translucent
found there was just one complaint to English Unitary Authorities in 2025 concerning trans
women’s use of single-sex spaces, such as toilets and changing rooms.3 By refusing to act,
your government is once again playing politics with trans people’s lives, rather than tackling
real problems, like the soaring cost of living, rising inequality and the ongoing climate
crisis.

Trans people of all ages and backgrounds exist in communities across the country - and
always have. They have every right to thrive just as their cisgender friends, family members,
and colleagues do. When Labour brought in the Gender Recognition Act in 2004 it promised
trans people they could live their lives with peace, privacy, and dignity. Now you are
breaking that promise.
I believe there is a real risk of trans people being essentially segregated from public spaces. I
urge you to withdraw the code and take legislative action to create an equalities framework
that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
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Feminist Greens (GPEW) @feministgreens.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"The Labour government has made a choice, one rooted in the patriarchy, to further police women’s bodies and exclude people who do not conform to arbitrary standards of femininity. We reject their Code of Practice and the colonial, misogynistic, sexist, and transphobic assumptions they employ" 1.
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 22/05/2026
"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
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Statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice - LGBTIQA+ Greens
Cover Photo Attribution: What The Trans?! The LGBTIQA+ Greens are disgusted by  the latest update to the Code of Practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). This version rows back o...
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people deserve the same standard of care as everyone else. Add your name and help @goodlawproject.org to root transphobia out of the NHS. goodlawproject.org/petition/tra...
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Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need
Across the country, trans people are being denied vital healthcare that has nothing to do with their gender identity – simply because they are trans.
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 A terrifying new report from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries warns our destruction of nature is bankrupting us—with massive implications for pensions, investments, public finances, and national security. 📣 “The potential collapse of nature is a realistic possibility.”
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Actuaries warn biodiversity loss is a systemic financial risk
A new IFoA and Anglia Ruskin University report says nature loss and climate shocks are threatening food security, inflation and long-term financial stability.
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Save our Seas Deal and Walmer @sosdaw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
SOS Whitstable held a protest today with the Dirty Business men and Feargal Sharkey among others speaking Please sign and share this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...
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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
(1/5) This week behind the scenes, Dover Museum’s collections team were joined by their museum volunteers and Maison Dieu ambassadors to help with the annual condition check and gentle clean of furniture at the Maison Dieu in #Dover
A member of Dover Museum's collection's team and and two Maison Dieu ambassadors inspecting, documenting, and cleaning red upholstered wooden chairs in the Maison Dieu's council chamber.Two members of Dover Museum's collections team gently cleaning and condition checking large tables on one of the Connaught Hall balconies in the Maison Dieu.Three volunteers cleaning and condition checking historic furniture on one of the Connaught Hall balconies in the Maison Dieu.. Two volunteers are cleaning a red upholstered wooden framed screen, while another volunteer is cleaning and condition checking a brown round leather chair.A member of Dover Museum's collection's team discussing and documenting integrated pest management with a volunteer in the Maison Dieu's council chamber.
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
❌ Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🌊 @soswhitstable.bsky.social now have over 300,000 signatures on their petition calling for the UK Government to return the water industry to public ownership. Add your name to the petition below: c.org/5MY826rKPs
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Sign the Petition
Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
💩 Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Please watch Channel 4's docudrama 'Dirty Business' on the pollution of our waters. There could not be a more shocking exposé of the human and environmental cost of privatisation, deregulation, corporate corruption and government complicity: www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
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Dirty Business
Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🪑 Many hours today were spent on wet cleaning and then varnishing a number of prop objects. These props are on display in an environment which is often above 90% RH. Varnish is just one of the preventative measures utilised to help keep the mould away in such damp conditions.
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🐧 What a wonderful and fascinating webinar this evening from @antarcticheritage.bsky.social with @megaheid.bsky.social for #PenguinAwarenessDay. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHt...
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Epic Voyages in Pursuit of Penguins
YouTube video by UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🧁 How’s this for a fabulous 1930s Art Deco shop frontage? The Grade II listed Bennett’s Bakers, 117 High Street in Poole, Dorset. Sadly, the third-generation, family-run bakers closed in July 2025 after 72 years of trading. As far as we’re aware it remains vacant and in need of a new custodian.
Bennett's Bakers, 117 High Street Poole (1930s), Grade II listed.
Image credit: John East
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
🍂 A rather frosty first walk of the year around @rspb.bsky.social Blean Woods.
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"What isn't at the V&A?" — new from me in @artreview.bsky.social on enduring colonialism, art-washing working class heritage, and a museum without labels artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
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What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/07/2025
Supporting the right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action, says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. Read Clive's full op-ed 👇 goodlaw.social/8idv
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As part of London Festival of Architecture I am speaking at an event hosted by @savetoreuse.bsky.social on Wednesday 11th June, entitled BEYOND CARBON: HOW EMBODIED MEMORY GROUNDS US IN PLACE, exploring the concept of embodied memory in the loss and reuse of buildings. Tickets: shorturl.at/m60vX
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
🏰 This was by far the highlight of Dover Castle Under Siege for me!
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Prill Kemp @apriliakemp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🥳 I shamelessly joined Bluesky for @cmatbaby.bsky.social content, however I am thrilled to say that I’ve also discovered a whole community of fellow museum and heritage professionals. I am late to the party, I know!
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