Kendra Bean
@kendrabean.bsky.social
Photography curator. Film lover. Voracious reader. Occasional writer. Author of books on Vivien Leigh and Ava Gardner 🍷
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Kendra Bean
@kendrabean.bsky.social
· Dec 28
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Every photo of this man projects “mean dumb asshole” which is exactly what you’re looking for in a Librarian of Congress
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.
The President has named a new Acting Librarian of Congress. It's his former defense lawyer.
Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Trump, is now acting Librarian of Congress. According to his public profile, Blanche has no experience working in libraries or archives.
www.npr.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Every photo of this man projects “mean dumb asshole” which is exactly what you’re looking for in a Librarian of Congress
May 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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It was so wonderful to meet up with @kendrabean.bsky.social while she's in Georgia for a Vivien Leigh event! We hadn't seen each other since 2015!
April 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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My 6-yo grandniece always asks me if whoever I am showing her a video of has died. When I showed her Gene Kelly doing the barn dance routine from SUMMER STOCK ‘50, she asked me if he died. I said, yes, and she replied “he probably danced too hard”
March 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My 6-yo grandniece always asks me if whoever I am showing her a video of has died. When I showed her Gene Kelly doing the barn dance routine from SUMMER STOCK ‘50, she asked me if he died. I said, yes, and she replied “he probably danced too hard”
Finished this little gothic gem this evening. I need more Caroline Blackwood books in my life. Thank you to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for the copy
📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics
📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics
March 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Finished this little gothic gem this evening. I need more Caroline Blackwood books in my life. Thank you to @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for the copy
📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics
📚💙 #booksky #nyrbassics
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I love this for you, my friend! ♥️📚
Went to the Rizzoli bookstore in Manhattan today with @812filmreviews.bsky.social to see my book! I signed a few copies. It was surreal.
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I love this for you, my friend! ♥️📚
Just finishing up BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison. Heartbreaking but full of fighting spirit. Bone is such a great character.
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
March 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just finishing up BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA by Dorothy Allison. Heartbreaking but full of fighting spirit. Bone is such a great character.
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
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The look on Zelenskyy’s face when Trump says “they respect me” is *chef’s kiss*🤌
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The look on Zelenskyy’s face when Trump says “they respect me” is *chef’s kiss*🤌
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While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
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Wow - we got access to rare earth minerals and all we had to give up was our global reputation
February 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Wow - we got access to rare earth minerals and all we had to give up was our global reputation
Don’t threaten me with a good time! I expected VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito to be dark and bloody but I did not expect it to be funny as well. A razor sharp (pun intended) gothic satire of classism and the country estate in Victorian England. A+. No notes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
February 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time! I expected VICTORIAN PSYCHO by Virginia Feito to be dark and bloody but I did not expect it to be funny as well. A razor sharp (pun intended) gothic satire of classism and the country estate in Victorian England. A+. No notes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booksky 📚💙
#booksky 📚💙
Some books I have read and enjoyed recently:
LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe
RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social
FINDING ME by Viola Davis
#booksky 📚💙
LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe
RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social
FINDING ME by Viola Davis
#booksky 📚💙
February 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Some books I have read and enjoyed recently:
LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe
RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social
FINDING ME by Viola Davis
#booksky 📚💙
LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER by Joshua Chaplinsky
MARGO’S GOT MONEH TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe
RAZORBLADE TEARS by @blacktopkid.bsky.social
FINDING ME by Viola Davis
#booksky 📚💙
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres ‘Portrait of Ross in LA’ represents his lover’s weight (in sweets) before AIDS took its toll.
Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross.
Heartbreaking.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...
Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross.
Heartbreaking.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...
The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all
By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...
www.out.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Felix Gonzalez-Torres ‘Portrait of Ross in LA’ represents his lover’s weight (in sweets) before AIDS took its toll.
Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross.
Heartbreaking.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...
Each day, as visitors help themselves to sweets, the weight drops, only to be replaced by the museum, granting a longevity denied to Ross.
Heartbreaking.
www.out.com/gay-news/fel...
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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
January 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Cary Grant in, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Directed by Howard Hawks
January 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Cary Grant in, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Directed by Howard Hawks
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May we all find this level of courage in these unsettling times.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
May we all find this level of courage in these unsettling times.
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Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
Can’t wait for four more years of gaslighting and filth 😵💫
January 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can’t wait for four more years of gaslighting and filth 😵💫
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Shirley Baker (1932 – 2014) prolific UK social documentary photographer, known for her working-class inner-city subjects around the Manchester area from 1960 until 2000 #WomensArt
January 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Shirley Baker (1932 – 2014) prolific UK social documentary photographer, known for her working-class inner-city subjects around the Manchester area from 1960 until 2000 #WomensArt
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