Beege wrote about this story a week ago when the two women who threw soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers were sentenced. Yesterday, Politico published a deep dive into the two activists behind this stunt and how they wound up getting a lot more time in jail than they bargained for.
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer are about the same age but come from very different backgrounds. Holland grew up in a forested area in the north of England. Plummer was attending a ritzy private school and later dropped out of college after having some kind of breakdown. What they had in common was climate doomerism and gender identity.
Holland had ever been a rule-abider. Growing up in a small village in a wooded corner of northwest England, they were happy. Holland’s childhood was spent, largely, in the forest, or with their head in a book. (Both Holland and Plummer use “they” and “them”…
