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Jessica Skwire Routhier

@jsrouthier.bsky.social
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Diversity, equity, inclusion and access are good, actually. Managing editor, #JournalPanorama, @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social. Contributing writer, Antiques and The Arts Weekly. Views, while hardly controversial, are my own.

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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
UPDATE: Found! Whew!
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our cat, Shark, has escaped from our South Portland home on Bellevue Avenue, on the edge of the Piggery. She is a petite tuxedo cat, about six pounds, with white whiskers. She is approachable but will react better to women than men. No collar, but microchipped. #lostcat #lostcats #maine 2077997324
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025. Tonight at University of Southern ME! Hosted by @mainehistory.org and the Osher Map Library. Reception: 5:30–6:00 p.m. Panel discussion and book signing: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m. www.mainehistory.org/events/shoul...
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Should We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025
Several contributors to the new essay collection What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History (UMass Press, 2025) will offer a brief illustr...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The new Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is out! The roundtable on curating #womenartists is required reading for #curators and other #museumpeople. It was also a pleasure to edit pieces by Virginia Girard, Larry Silver, and Angela Jager. #arthistory #museums jhna.org/issues/vol-1...
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Volume 17: Issue 1 (2025) - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Please sign the petition to support One Big Union at the Maine Trust for Local News, to include staff at the Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Brunswick Times Record, Portland Press Herald, and Morning Sentinel within the News Guild of Maine. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
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Maine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effort
Staff have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board and are asking the parent company of the Press Herald and other newspapers to recognize nearly 50 additional employees as part of th...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"These nudes...do not bear the weight of the centuries that came before them. They are more free, less inhibited, than their predecessors." My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on "A Fountain of Forms" at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art: bit.ly/40DOwHE
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A Fountain of Forms: The Rise Of The American Woman Sculptor, 1910-1929 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
GREENSBURG, PENN. — This year, 2025, is the “Year of the Woman” at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Blockbusters are planned (and some have already opened) on Cecilia Beaux, Berenice Abbott an...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#Mainers, know and remember this.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Once upon a time, a #Maine mom put the fear of God into the staff at the @newyorker.com. @rayrouthier.bsky.social on how a strongly worded letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother was the genesis of the magazine's #factchecking department. www.pressherald.com?p=7469341&uu...
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The New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s mother
The magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay's mother, pointing out several errors in a story abou...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Some reading for your #Juneteenth —the new issue of #JournalPanorama is out, with features on Dave the Potter, Edmonia Lewis, Blackness in the Ashcan school, and more. #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #AfricanAmericanArt @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social
Screenshot of website for Panorama, Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"of teaching commercial art & illustration as well as painting & sculpture and exhibiting works like Ruth Morley’s costume designs & Steven Cartoccio’s figurine of the rapper Notorious B.I.G. alongside portraits by Will Barnet & seascapes by Winslow Homer.” 📷Steven Cartoccio/Art Students League NY
Gilded statue of a man in sunglasses and hip-hop garb seated on a throne and wearing a crown. One foot is up on a giant stack of dollar bills, and his left arm holds a scepter-like cane.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"This philosophy, historically and today, extends beyond women to include queer artists, people of color and international students, and, moreover, that it extends beyond human demographics. The League also has a history of dismantling barriers between art genres...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“The League’s commitment to inclusivity, its willingness to break boundaries, is clearly one of its superpowers" My latest for Antiques and The Arts Weekly, on the capstone 150th anniversary show at the Art Students League of New York. bit.ly/4dzS4Qq
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Shaping American Art: A Celebration Of The Art Students League Of New York At 150 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
NEW YORK CITY — The Art Students League is an unusual name for an art school, when you think about it. The word “league” usually refers to a diplomatic entity (League of Nations), or a sports organiza...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I also want to note that as a Catholic I agree that actions matter, not just belief. To that end I have to look at my own words and actions in this thread and discern where I've gone so wrong that it came to this point. Again, I apologize for it.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I hear this and don't deny it. I definitely grew up in a Christian-dominated environment. But for what it's worth I did not grow up *as* a Christian and often felt some of the things you are describing. It's been a complicated journey. I appreciate you taking the time to engage with me on this.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Do you have more authority than me? I thought we were just people talking.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
OK, I didn't say that at all, but I am sorry that you have been hurt, and I wish you well.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
That's all I've got, in the end.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I acknowledge that I see it through a Christian lens, but doesn't that follow? I do not view it as an example of Judenhass but I do understand how it is possible to.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
You asked why I'm privileging Jesus's opinion over Jewish sources. I mean, I'm Christian. I privilege his opinion in most things. Plus as far as I know there is no Jewish retelling of the Temple story; it only appears in Christian scripture
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Nice intolerance badge, sport.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Respectfully, I believe this is a misinterpretation.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I have actually really enjoyed the conversation, which reminds me of Twitter before it sucked. I appreciate your perspectives.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The waters have gotten very muddied here as we both practice exegesis and discuss the historical moment in which Christianity emerged.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
OK. I will say for the record that I do not see Christianity as replacement for Judaism, that Jews are the real Jews, and that I fully acknowledge the bible is not historical fact.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I don't really disagree with you, though personally I find the teachings of Jesus to be a moment of clarity within it. It's okay for us to disagree.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I converted in my late 40s.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This seems uncalled for. I make no claim to be Jewish in terms of practice and belief. But I am ethnically half Jewish, and it has been part of my upbringing. That is just a fact.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What holds most impact, for me, are the moments that many witnessed, like the Sermon on the Mount, and while your mileage may vary, I just don't think it's possible to believe the dude who said all that means ill toward his fellow humans.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Not every teller of those stories will have remembered things perfectly or been immune from adding their own gloss on what they'd been told.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Shame on you, Browns. After what this city has done for you. Good luck filling an airplane hangar in suburbia. The Brook Park Browns, what a legacy 🙄
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Cleveland, Cuyahoga County cut ties with Greater Cleveland Partnership over Browns Brook Park stadium support
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are severing ties with the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the Browns debate.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I apologize; I did not mean to offend. Please understand that I meant only to refer to the Christian Old Testament, not the Torah.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Further, it's important to consider who Jesus, given what we know of him, would have considered a sinner. It's probably not gay people or, say, Samaritans.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's been fully six years in the making. Amazing work by editors Liam Riordan and Richard Judd of the @umaine.bsky.social history department to bring this to print despite COVID and...everything else. Can't wait to hold it my hands!
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"What We Know, What We Wish: Maine Statehood, Historical Commemoration, and the Urgency of Public History"—including my very transgressive chapter—will be published next month by @umasspress.bsky.social ! bit.ly/44PFo5O
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What We Know, What We Wish
Cities, states, and nations are grappling with how best to commemorate historical events and anniversaries in ways that are fair, accurate, and open public ...
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
OMG I know! It's very embarrassing.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I 100% thought Dick Van Dyke was British until I was like 30
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Show us your writing process in a GIF
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a woman is laying on a couch with a box of chocolates in her hand .
ALT: a woman is laying on a couch with a box of chocolates in her hand .
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Feckless. They would say "feckless."
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I mean if there is anything Xers should relate to it's being tired
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Oh FFS. Florida man runs for office in ME-2. #mainepolitics
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Sorry I have all the pencils bro
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
True, but also, like--I literally just drove in and out of Manhattan from Maine. No one stopped me? I mean parking was expensive but this has never not been true. This is such a weird thing for people to fulminate about.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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the man is wearing a suit and tie and sitting in a chair .
ALT: the man is wearing a suit and tie and sitting in a chair .
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Nerd preservationist
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Aren't liberals left-wing? Isn't it just a question of degrees? Why deny that?
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Look at my panna cotta eggs with lemon curd yolks
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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a woman with a feather in her hair is holding a feather in her hand .
ALT: a woman with a feather in her hair is holding a feather in her hand .
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Tufts has acquitted itself honorably too. Cradle of the revolution vibes.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
On FB, I'm watching in real time as someone I once thought of as an ally gets steadily radicalized (reactionalized?). Truly; she's chosen *this* moment. She's "gender critical" and thinks anyone who isn't has been "brainwashed" by mainstream media. She recommends we watch more Fox News. God help us.
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Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Um, cool graphic, but source? I live in Maine and am pretty sure I'd have heard about it if this were true.
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