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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us Friday, October 23, 3:00-4:30 PM, for an Author Talk with Mark Gallagher on Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom & Male Sex Appeal. Scholars Chris Holmlund, Russel Meeuf, Isabel Molina-Guzman, & Man Fung Yip will join this conversation. Register for the Zoom at tinyurl.com/Cosmosexuals.

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is open to people who aren't part of SCMS or the SIG but interested in this scholarship!

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is open to people who aren't part of SCMS or the SIG but interested in this scholarship!

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Be sure to register for this upcoming talk! #SCMS #PerformanceandStardom

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Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Please join the SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG for our second author talk of the academic year with Justin Rawlins, author of Imagining the Method! Register at tinyurl.com/46de74pk

Flyer featuring a book cover for Imagining the Method with Marlon Brando reclining.

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pumpkin spice, I wish I knew how to quit you.

Pumpkin beer, pumpkin spice rice cakes, pumpkin spice coffee.

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Professors have no time to indoctrinate students. I have spent three full hours this morning just dealing with emails.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis

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Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Join the Performance & Stardom SIG for an Author Talk with Barry King, author of Performing Identity: Actor Training, Self-Commodification, and Celebrity. Hunter Hargraves will lead the conversation on Friday, Aug 28 at 3:00 PM EDT on Zoom. Registration required (but free!): tinyurl.com/ymam5mv6

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On the late evening of August 4th/early morning of August 5th, Marilyn Monroe left her earthly body. But she lived an amazing life before that. In honor of her life, here’s a postcard she sent before she was Marilyn, in Maurice Zolotow’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center.

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brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

77: Some Kind of Mirror @thekonk.bsky.social outstanding academic book on Monroe that uses a blend of close readings and grounded contextual analysis from the 1950s to explain her stardom and persona. A must read for media scholars. @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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🔞Queerplatonic RadioHell 🔞 @fineblackinc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Read books that make you look up words

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Who is good at reading cursive handwriting? If you pull the image out to full size, what is your guess for the C word that begins the fourth line?

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Joe Kassel @joekassel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I remember this. It was a scandal that rocked the national news!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

More people have been arrested for the deranged president's conspiracy theories around the algae in the reflecting pool than have been put behind bars for the Epstein crimes and the architects of the 2008 Financial Collapse combined.

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

💖 the best therapy ~ has fur furever #caturday 💚💛💜🩷

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

70 years ago yesterday, New York Times reported, “Arthur Miller, playwright, disclosed today a past filled with Communist-front associations & a future filled with Marilyn Monroe.” Fortuitous for the start of a chapter on how Miller created & recreated versions of MM for the rest of his life.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🧵🚨 REPOST THIS: The strongman act is falling apart. Behind the media blackout, the firewall of democracy just handed the administration 8 back-to-back defeats this week. Help us break the algorithm and spread the truth. Tap below to read the certified scoreboard: 👇 (1/10)

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Eight Wins: Great For Us, Horrible News For Donald Trump

Real people. Real fights. Real victories.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/06/2026

I wish I could read like this. Happy #Caturday

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Come on, Boomers, stop pushing old back & white movies on us. What possible relevance could an antique like Citizen Kane have on the modern world?”

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Men are too emotional to be president.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy 100th to Marilyn Monroe!

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Congrats to Freedom250 for finally booking a new act.

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So grateful to the icons of Performance & Stardom Studies who initiated this SIG and who generously shared their thoughts for our SIG Spotlight!

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here to report that I am writing my book via weeks (months) of note-taking from other actual books and exhausting mental exertion, like the ancestors intended.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

One week until #MarilynMonroe #100! Arthur Miller’s draft screenplays for The Misfits are at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas and tell us a lot about how people saw her even before her tragic death.

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Bob Meier @bmeier79.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you aren't watching 60 Minutes tonight, you should be. The first segment is about the stock market and comparing what's happening now to 1929. The protections put up after the 29 crash have been removed.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/05/2026

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Jin Wang & Wenxiang Fan
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 13, Article number: 528 (2026) Cite this article

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The Original Article was published on 06 May 2025

Retraction Note to: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04787-y, published online 06 May 2025

The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

A button that reads: TPUSA. Wives submit, husbands love, children obey, Colossians 3:18-19

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Your tax dollars paid for this free swag I got when I arrived at Trump's Prayer Jubilee on the National Mall

A magazine entitled

BELIGIOUS FREEDOM & AMERICA IN BIBLE PROPHECY

The Future of Earth's Last Superpower Revealed

There is dramatic art of eagles and buffaloes and American flags and lightning and etc

A small pamphlet with an eagle and a flag and a large neoclassical building entitled:

America

& THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

CAN GOD'S LAW SAVE A NΑΤΙΟΝ?

Βy ΑΝΤHOΝY LESTER

A book with more dramatic art of a neoclassic city burning and a beautiful city on the hill and a Roman soldier and some other shit idk and also it's title is:

The Fall and Rise of JERUSALEM

The Great Controversy Between Good and Evil

E. G. White

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.” And there you have it, folks

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One week left to submit! Join us in glorious Indiana this fall.

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Last summer I conducted research in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center. In honor of the countdown to Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday, here’s a note to photographer Andre de Dienes.

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Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Starts Thursday: The BAFTSS and SCMS Performance & Stardom SIGs invite you to the Inaugural Virtual Symposium: “Peripheries of Stardom and Performance”. The symposium will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 at 3:00-5:00 PM BST (10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT), with 2 sessions each day.

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Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Lots of online Stardom and Performance content coming in May! Be sure to register for our symposium with BAFTSS on May 7 and 8 and our author talk on May 15!

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Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I am writing a book about adaptations using Marilyn Monroe as a character. Right now a new written adaptation is appearing about every month.

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Casey W. Coller @caseywcoller.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I hate AI so much. So. Much. Please stop trying to make me use AI. I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮 I will die on this hill. It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us. I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

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Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The BAFTSS and SCMS Performance & Stardom SIGs are delighted to invite you to their Inaugural Virtual Symposium: “Peripheries of Stardom and Performance”. The symposium will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 at 3:00-5:00 PM BST (10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT), with 2 sessions each day.

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