Kendra James
@kendrajames.bsky.social
Author (ADMISSIONS: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School); WIP on four summers at The American Girl Place; Mission Impossible enthusiast.
Taking me forever to read this very short memoir because, well, baby. But I’ve been annotating too and a rabbit hole I’d like to go down once I’m back on Mat leave is finding some contemporary articles recounting the riot like protests that followed her performances around Eastern Europe.
I started reading the reissued Josephine Baker memoir this morning. It’s written as dictated, in part w/ an interpreter until she learned French. It’s almost just stream of consciousness at times, so a very unique read. I can’t say it’s well written? But it is absolutely fascinating and captivating.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Taking me forever to read this very short memoir because, well, baby. But I’ve been annotating too and a rabbit hole I’d like to go down once I’m back on Mat leave is finding some contemporary articles recounting the riot like protests that followed her performances around Eastern Europe.
You ever think about the influx of people using medications that require at home injections and the number of those people who are probably *not* doing proper needle disposal? I hadn’t either, but then I considered it and now I am haunted.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You ever think about the influx of people using medications that require at home injections and the number of those people who are probably *not* doing proper needle disposal? I hadn’t either, but then I considered it and now I am haunted.
Watching this audience try and find the beat of Yuma’s weird ass Stevie remix… 🥴
(Watching replays days late, as usual.)
(Watching replays days late, as usual.)
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Watching this audience try and find the beat of Yuma’s weird ass Stevie remix… 🥴
(Watching replays days late, as usual.)
(Watching replays days late, as usual.)
Now that I am home safely and the flight was mostly uneventful I can say that for an anxiety ridden shitty flyer like myself (my body is still currently loaded up on Xanax) seeing a full figure skating team board your flight is maybe one of the most nerve wracking things that can happen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Now that I am home safely and the flight was mostly uneventful I can say that for an anxiety ridden shitty flyer like myself (my body is still currently loaded up on Xanax) seeing a full figure skating team board your flight is maybe one of the most nerve wracking things that can happen.
Lol so many interesting folks on this flight to LAX, including the Skyliners Synchro Skating team who I did clock immediately. Wishing them all the best of luck at the Fall Classic in Irvine this weekend ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Lol so many interesting folks on this flight to LAX, including the Skyliners Synchro Skating team who I did clock immediately. Wishing them all the best of luck at the Fall Classic in Irvine this weekend ❤️
I started reading the reissued Josephine Baker memoir this morning. It’s written as dictated, in part w/ an interpreter until she learned French. It’s almost just stream of consciousness at times, so a very unique read. I can’t say it’s well written? But it is absolutely fascinating and captivating.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I started reading the reissued Josephine Baker memoir this morning. It’s written as dictated, in part w/ an interpreter until she learned French. It’s almost just stream of consciousness at times, so a very unique read. I can’t say it’s well written? But it is absolutely fascinating and captivating.
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"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."
Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."
Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
Baby says, they got so many Basquiats they call me Blue Ivy.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Baby says, they got so many Basquiats they call me Blue Ivy.
Okay my videos from this auction are all very bad (and as soon as a $360k canary yellow diamond ring came up they switched to photos only hahaha) so not much to share but for someone who watches Antiques Roadshow weekly that was a full ass delight.
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Okay my videos from this auction are all very bad (and as soon as a $360k canary yellow diamond ring came up they switched to photos only hahaha) so not much to share but for someone who watches Antiques Roadshow weekly that was a full ass delight.
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Dodgers bullpen running into the field in formation like they’re in West Side Story.
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Dodgers bullpen running into the field in formation like they’re in West Side Story.
Having now completed my annual exercise of trying to become a Quad God fan I am now going back to watch the rhythm dance.
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Having now completed my annual exercise of trying to become a Quad God fan I am now going back to watch the rhythm dance.
Skater or not, I will be upset if my kid can’t identify a proper lutz entry. I’ve been lecturing him about it through two seasons now and he’s only 8 months old.
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Skater or not, I will be upset if my kid can’t identify a proper lutz entry. I’ve been lecturing him about it through two seasons now and he’s only 8 months old.
I got lowkey very into baseball again this season. Still very Cubs focused but I think I watched more across leagues this summer than I’ve watched since 2020, so was more of a birdseye view. Excited for Game 7 tonight tho so that I can shift focus entirely to skating as of tomorrow.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I got lowkey very into baseball again this season. Still very Cubs focused but I think I watched more across leagues this summer than I’ve watched since 2020, so was more of a birdseye view. Excited for Game 7 tonight tho so that I can shift focus entirely to skating as of tomorrow.
Catching up on the men’s short. How, I wonder, did we land on Fight the Power?
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Catching up on the men’s short. How, I wonder, did we land on Fight the Power?
Idk how many Eteri jump scares I can take leading up to this Olympics.
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Idk how many Eteri jump scares I can take leading up to this Olympics.
Honestly a jump scare every time I remind myself that Lil Wayne and I are not even 10 years apart in age.
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Honestly a jump scare every time I remind myself that Lil Wayne and I are not even 10 years apart in age.
My dude is such a great husband and father and yet sometimes I do find myself saying sentences like, “We cannot play musical instruments in the apartment after the baby has been put to sleep!!!”
October 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
My dude is such a great husband and father and yet sometimes I do find myself saying sentences like, “We cannot play musical instruments in the apartment after the baby has been put to sleep!!!”
Cannot wait to turn this on when I get home tonight!!!!!!!
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Cannot wait to turn this on when I get home tonight!!!!!!!
Tonatiuh! Tonatiuh! Tonatiuh!
You need to run to see Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sprint, even, to see this (frankly) second tier musical that jumps into stratosphere thank to a stellar debut by Tonatiuh who has apparently just spent the last 30 years of his life NOT being a movie star somehow.
You need to run to see Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sprint, even, to see this (frankly) second tier musical that jumps into stratosphere thank to a stellar debut by Tonatiuh who has apparently just spent the last 30 years of his life NOT being a movie star somehow.
October 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tonatiuh! Tonatiuh! Tonatiuh!
You need to run to see Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sprint, even, to see this (frankly) second tier musical that jumps into stratosphere thank to a stellar debut by Tonatiuh who has apparently just spent the last 30 years of his life NOT being a movie star somehow.
You need to run to see Kiss of the Spider Woman. Sprint, even, to see this (frankly) second tier musical that jumps into stratosphere thank to a stellar debut by Tonatiuh who has apparently just spent the last 30 years of his life NOT being a movie star somehow.
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This here’s a man of the people.
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This here’s a man of the people.
The Free Press is free this week to coincide with the CBS announcement. The first newsletter from them this morning was a head/dek that pretty much any reasonable person could get behind. They’re gonna be posting their most reasonable content over the next week or so as bait. Warn your parents etc.
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Free Press is free this week to coincide with the CBS announcement. The first newsletter from them this morning was a head/dek that pretty much any reasonable person could get behind. They’re gonna be posting their most reasonable content over the next week or so as bait. Warn your parents etc.
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Thinking about when she said, of a Japanese-American figure skater, “immigrants: they get the job done” and when a bunch of people pointed out that she was American she pretended she meant her parents for some reason
BREAKING— David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, just sent out this email to Paramount employees re: The Free Press acquisition/Bari Weiss. Says she has passion for "rigorous, fact-based reporting & a relentless commitment to amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum."
Text shared w me:
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October 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thinking about when she said, of a Japanese-American figure skater, “immigrants: they get the job done” and when a bunch of people pointed out that she was American she pretended she meant her parents for some reason
Raye’s Where is My Husband is like Single Ladies from the POV of someone whose serial monogamist best friend is getting on their last nerve.
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Raye’s Where is My Husband is like Single Ladies from the POV of someone whose serial monogamist best friend is getting on their last nerve.
Love to spend Saturday morning at my colorectal surgeon’s office 🥰
October 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Love to spend Saturday morning at my colorectal surgeon’s office 🥰