Van Gogh girl 🌻
@leausaumatre.bsky.social
Public historian & museum pro in Baltimore raising tiny people and cats. Quilter, imperfect but aspiring earth ally, and appreciator of vintage dishes. She/her.
Bluesky, this is my gift to you
For a 16oz bag of cranberries, 1c sugar/1c water dissolved, cranberries brought to boil then simmer, 1 apple, juice from 1 orange & 1 lemon, nutmeg & cinnamon measured in vibes, and if you feel like going an extra mile & alcohol is safe for you, a little triple sec!
Make it at least one day before!
Make it at least one day before!
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Bluesky, this is my gift to you
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I KNOW some of y’all are here. I’m wearing all black and have pink hair. Please say hi!!!
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I KNOW some of y’all are here. I’m wearing all black and have pink hair. Please say hi!!!
There’s one thing that none of us know how to explain to our children. And that thing is the 2019 Cats movie.
September 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
There’s one thing that none of us know how to explain to our children. And that thing is the 2019 Cats movie.
Having a real “Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none” moment re: MTG vs. Collins/Murkowski on the Epstein files. Hell hath frozen over.
September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Having a real “Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none” moment re: MTG vs. Collins/Murkowski on the Epstein files. Hell hath frozen over.
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Happening now: eating @leausaumatre.bsky.social’s freezer jam straight outta the jar with a spoon.
I will not apologize.
I will not apologize.
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Happening now: eating @leausaumatre.bsky.social’s freezer jam straight outta the jar with a spoon.
I will not apologize.
I will not apologize.
Duh
I need all of you to know that last night at the dinner table we were talking about who would be the one character played by a human actor in Muppet Jaws and @leausaumatre.bsky.social said it should be Quint.
Who’s the most handsome out of Hooper, Brody, and Quint?
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Duh
Tried introducing my kid to National Geographic’s Greeking Out podcast for kids. I just finished Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne, so I went for the episode on Dionysus.
His response: “MOM?!! CUTTING THIGHS? PUTTING BABIES INSIDE? THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS.”
Anyway we’ll try again next year 😆
His response: “MOM?!! CUTTING THIGHS? PUTTING BABIES INSIDE? THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS.”
Anyway we’ll try again next year 😆
May 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tried introducing my kid to National Geographic’s Greeking Out podcast for kids. I just finished Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne, so I went for the episode on Dionysus.
His response: “MOM?!! CUTTING THIGHS? PUTTING BABIES INSIDE? THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS.”
Anyway we’ll try again next year 😆
His response: “MOM?!! CUTTING THIGHS? PUTTING BABIES INSIDE? THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS.”
Anyway we’ll try again next year 😆
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I got to interview two noted historians for my @thebaltimorebanner.com piece on the Nottoway fire. It reminds me that we are never in a post racial society and that the shadows of slavery and dehumanization can’t be papered over by pretty decorations.
In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
A plantation on fire may feel like justice, but echoes of slavery haunt Baltimore, too
Sure, there’s something to be said for preserving history like the Nottoway plantation. But when that history’s been thrown away in favor of engagement photos, what are we really losing in the fire?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I got to interview two noted historians for my @thebaltimorebanner.com piece on the Nottoway fire. It reminds me that we are never in a post racial society and that the shadows of slavery and dehumanization can’t be papered over by pretty decorations.
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Oh hey wow this article is a local public historian bonanza 😍 Big fan of @marthasjones.bsky.social and @leausaumatre.bsky.social here!!
In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
A plantation on fire may feel like justice, but echoes of slavery haunt Baltimore, too
Sure, there’s something to be said for preserving history like the Nottoway plantation. But when that history’s been thrown away in favor of engagement photos, what are we really losing in the fire?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Oh hey wow this article is a local public historian bonanza 😍 Big fan of @marthasjones.bsky.social and @leausaumatre.bsky.social here!!
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In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
A plantation on fire may feel like justice, but echoes of slavery haunt Baltimore, too
Sure, there’s something to be said for preserving history like the Nottoway plantation. But when that history’s been thrown away in favor of engagement photos, what are we really losing in the fire?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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In related news, I'm pleased that there are today fewer Confederate statues in my old neighborhood of Charles Village in Baltimore than there were when in lived there 2004-7. But, the US needs a truth and reconciliation process about its many abuses and I hope one day it gets one.
In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
A plantation on fire may feel like justice, but echoes of slavery haunt Baltimore, too
Sure, there’s something to be said for preserving history like the Nottoway plantation. But when that history’s been thrown away in favor of engagement photos, what are we really losing in the fire?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In related news, I'm pleased that there are today fewer Confederate statues in my old neighborhood of Charles Village in Baltimore than there were when in lived there 2004-7. But, the US needs a truth and reconciliation process about its many abuses and I hope one day it gets one.
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In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
A plantation on fire may feel like justice, but echoes of slavery haunt Baltimore, too
Sure, there’s something to be said for preserving history like the Nottoway plantation. But when that history’s been thrown away in favor of engagement photos, what are we really losing in the fire?
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking yesterday with @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social about the Nottoway Resort fire.
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Hey any Maryland historians want to talk to me about the Nottaway fire and the connection between preserving history and trying to make it pretty? @thebaltimorebanner.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking yesterday with @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social about the Nottoway Resort fire.
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Something I truly don’t understand is why, in 2025, in-person votes are still required and a single person being absent from the in-person vote just, disenfranchises an entire district of voters. What?
216-214. One Democratic absence (Norcross) and two Dem vacancies due to deaths (Turner and Grijalva) proved decisive on a budget that unlocks the door for Republicans to make trillions in tax/spending changes.
BREAKING: House Republicans adopt budget plan needed to advance President Trump’s agenda, beating back a conservative rebellion that had threatened to sink the measure just a day earlier.
April 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Something I truly don’t understand is why, in 2025, in-person votes are still required and a single person being absent from the in-person vote just, disenfranchises an entire district of voters. What?
“The Obama-Biden war on showers”
Can we get this on a t-shirt or
Can we get this on a t-shirt or
April 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“The Obama-Biden war on showers”
Can we get this on a t-shirt or
Can we get this on a t-shirt or
As a historian with middling skills but high interest in garment-making, this thread was super interesting. The question of whether America could pull off actually desirable branding at this point is fascinating to me because I honestly don’t know.
I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As a historian with middling skills but high interest in garment-making, this thread was super interesting. The question of whether America could pull off actually desirable branding at this point is fascinating to me because I honestly don’t know.
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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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Because I am untutored in the Majesty of the Law I do not consider it reasonable that Chief Justice Roberts let the man the US kidnapped swelter for a few extra days in the Salvadoran torture chamber just so the Justices can stroke their chins.
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Because I am untutored in the Majesty of the Law I do not consider it reasonable that Chief Justice Roberts let the man the US kidnapped swelter for a few extra days in the Salvadoran torture chamber just so the Justices can stroke their chins.
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Baltimore wants our neighbor back, you cretin of a "justice"
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison.
April 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Baltimore wants our neighbor back, you cretin of a "justice"
My family attended a peaceful rally in Baltimore today. Given recent attacks on the IMLS, NEH, and Smithsonian, I felt compelled to represent museums. @bmoreart.bsky.social featured this photo in a photo essay you can view in full here: bmoreart.com/2025/04/one-...
April 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
My family attended a peaceful rally in Baltimore today. Given recent attacks on the IMLS, NEH, and Smithsonian, I felt compelled to represent museums. @bmoreart.bsky.social featured this photo in a photo essay you can view in full here: bmoreart.com/2025/04/one-...
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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
I love and believe in museum work. But in four months of job searching, with a respectable, established resume, I’ve had just one organization reach out to interview—and my second interview with them, scheduled for this morning, was rescinded an hour prior due to uncertainty around grant funding.
April 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love and believe in museum work. But in four months of job searching, with a respectable, established resume, I’ve had just one organization reach out to interview—and my second interview with them, scheduled for this morning, was rescinded an hour prior due to uncertainty around grant funding.
Between Booker and Princeton, daaamn Jersey!
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Between Booker and Princeton, daaamn Jersey!
These clips will be played across the world and that matters in this moment and it will matter in the future.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
These clips will be played across the world and that matters in this moment and it will matter in the future.