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Amy Kaufman
@amykmtl.bsky.social
She/Her: Survivor of IPV, Intersectional Feminist, Mom, Montréalaise, taker of baths, ⚾️
Go baseball! Go Yoshi!
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It wasn’t the ending we hoped for but my new friend Yoshi is very happy!
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
There’s no crying in baseball ⚾️
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Baseball reunion with one of my favorite people (and baseball writers) 💙
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
To say I miss her would be an understatement.

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
C.S Lewis
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Passover 2025 theme:
“If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere”- Kris Kristofferson
April 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
February 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My six year old borrowed my phone and made this. He might not be loving the whole big brother business.
February 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Anyone know what’s up with the Wizard next to Johnson?
February 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Lucky me.
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lucky me.
December 23, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Missing my incredible Mom today on her birthday (and every day). Getting to celebrate her with Cy and Holly (who she would’ve flipped over) helps, though ❤️
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
James M. Barrie
December 14, 2024 at 9:51 PM
1/2 of all homeless women and children in the U.S. are fleeing from domestic violence.
December 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Annie Turcotte was a woman ahead of her time: committed to nature and finding ways to protect it. She was 21 years old when she was killed. Her mother said that despite the years, Turcotte is “forever our darling daughter… We’ve always kept her very much alive in our house.”
December 6, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Michèle Richard, or Mimi, as she was nicknamed, had a brilliant smile and a calming presence. Her boyfriend who was in her class when she was killed said Richard was “a gentle girl, happy, brilliant, beautiful. She lived every moment intensely. She abhorred violence.”
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Sonia Pelletier was the person who won every competition and secured every scholarship. She liked rock music and to cook. Pelletier was 28 years old and just days from graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering and a transcript of straight As when she was killed.
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Maryse Leclair was a rebel who did not care what people thought of her. She liked British punk and new wave music. her father, Lt. Pierre Leclair entered the school that day and found Maryse dead near the man who killed her. “We think of our daughter every day” he told media.
December 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Maryse Laganière was a shy newlywed with a beautiful smile. was 25 when she was killed, was a budget clerk for the school’s finance department. That’s where she met the “love of her life,” JF Larivée, in 1986.
December 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Anne-Marie Lemay 22, studied engineering because of a close friend who lost the use of his legs. She was known for her ability to connect with people and visited him weekly to help with his rehabilitation. And it was there that she realized the importance of mechanical devices.
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz spoke 5 languages and had a “great deadpan sarcasm.” Born in Poland and fled to Germany after the country was put under martial law. Canada seemed safe,she thought, 31 years old and in her first year of nursing science at the school when she was killed
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Maud Haviernick was, first and foremost, an artist. She chose to go back to school at École Polytechnique to fulfil her dream of being an engineer and studying materials engineering.
She was killed giving her final presentation for her metals class, along with her classmate.
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Geneviève Bergeron was smart enough to earn a scholarship and also talented enough that she was still vacillating between a career in engineering or in music. Bergeron played clarinet and sang in the choir at the MSO. Geneviève was sweet, generous and bubbling with life.
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Anne-Marie Edward loved skiing — a sport she did at school and with her family.
It was so near to Edward’s heart that she was buried in her school team ski jacket
Her mother told La Presse that Edward would be proud to see her memory being used to end misogyny.
December 6, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Barbara Daigneault was not someone bound by conventional limits.
When she was just 7 years old, she asked why she could never become pope. She would ultimately follow in her father’s footsteps and study engineering. She loved shrimp omelettes and chocolate cake with whipped cream
December 6, 2024 at 1:07 PM