Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Our 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 130
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Should 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...mainehistory.orgShould We Care About the Past? Maine Statehood from 1820 to 2025Several 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... 020
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The 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...jhna.orgVolume 17: Issue 1 (2025) - Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 030
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Please 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...pressherald.comMaine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effortStaff 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... 000
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/40DOwHEantiquesandthearts.comA Fountain of Forms: The Rise Of The American Woman Sculptor, 1910-1929 - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyGREENSBURG, 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... 020
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Once 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...pressherald.comThe New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s motherThe 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... 030
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Some 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 041
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 021
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... 100
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/4dzS4Qqbit.lyShaping American Art: A Celebration Of The Art Students League Of New York At 150 - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyNEW 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... 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I 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. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Do you have more authority than me? I thought we were just people talking. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025OK, I didn't say that at all, but I am sorry that you have been hurt, and I wish you well. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I 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. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025You 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 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Respectfully, I believe this is a misinterpretation. 200
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I have actually really enjoyed the conversation, which reminds me of Twitter before it sucked. I appreciate your perspectives. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025The waters have gotten very muddied here as we both practice exegesis and discuss the historical moment in which Christianity emerged. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025OK. 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. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025This 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025What 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Not every teller of those stories will have remembered things perfectly or been immune from adding their own gloss on what they'd been told. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Shame 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 🙄cleveland.comCleveland, Cuyahoga County cut ties with Greater Cleveland Partnership over Browns Brook Park stadium supportCleveland and Cuyahoga County are severing ties with the Greater Cleveland Partnership over the Browns debate. 010
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I apologize; I did not mean to offend. Please understand that I meant only to refer to the Christian Old Testament, not the Torah. 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Further, 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It'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! 010
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/44PFo5Obit.lyWhat We Know, What We WishCities, states, and nations are grappling with how best to commemorate historical events and anniversaries in ways that are fair, accurate, and open public ... 100
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I 100% thought Dick Van Dyke was British until I was like 30 51153
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Show us your writing process in a GIFmedia.tenor.coma 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 . 060
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Feckless. They would say "feckless." 0560
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I mean if there is anything Xers should relate to it's being tired 070
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Oh FFS. Florida man runs for office in ME-2. #mainepolitics 021
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 29/04/2025True, 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. 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025media.tenor.comthe 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 . 010
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Aren't liberals left-wing? Isn't it just a question of degrees? Why deny that? 000
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Look at my panna cotta eggs with lemon curd yolks 030
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025media.tenor.coma 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 . 020
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Tufts has acquitted itself honorably too. Cradle of the revolution vibes. 080
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025On 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. 030
Jessica Skwire Routhier @jsrouthier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Um, cool graphic, but source? I live in Maine and am pretty sure I'd have heard about it if this were true. 000