Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)
PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
alexketchum.ca
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- Feb 9th event about queer food comics! free and virtual!! www.eventbrite.com/e/comic-arts... @prismcomics.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social @ccacomics.bsky.social @dandq.bsky.social n
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
- As an interdisciplinary scholar, I am reading constantly and yet still I sometimes miss out on great work (related to topics I write about). I just read a great article by @ph-dyke.bsky.social about Lesbians Who Tech! Even with different google scholar alerts set up and such- I still miss pieces.
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
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- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
- excited to be on the @allusionistshow.bsky.social again with @helenzaltzman.bsky.social ! @concordiapress.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- there's a new episode in your podfeed! Featuring dino gobs, feminist cookbooks, and swear school, with @aketchum22.bsky.social, @martinaustwick.bsky.social, @suchmayer.bsky.social, #HannahMcGregor, #KellyElizabethWright and @mixedlinguist.bsky.social theallusionist.org/bonus2025
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
- If you are looking for more information about conference accessibility and/or are trying to plan your visit to Montréal, check out our website: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/montreal-a...
- Reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's fear that with nowhere further west to expand on the American continent that masculinity would be in danger (and part of this was the motivation to create more national parks where men could remain "real men")
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- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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- Registration for the Queer Food Conference opens on January 15th at 8 AM ET. www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registrati... The hybrid conference will be in-person in Montréal and online from May 1-3, 2026. You can see the full schedule online.
- All attendees are invited to contribute to the Queer Food Conference Cookbook: Cook Out Volume 2. www.queerfoodconference.com/p/2026-cookb... We hope to see you there!
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- Learn more about my newly out book How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences. Here's a brief excerpt: microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2026/01... @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- The 2026 Queer Food Conference Schedule is now live: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/schedule-2... Conference registration for in-person and online attendance opens on Jan 15th! @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
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- CALL FOR PROPOSALS – FROM MARGINALIZATION TO VISIBILITY: 2SLGBTQ+ ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC MEMORY May 15-17, 2026, Halifax, NS in case you hadn't seen it yet: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- great idea!
- conference registration will open on January 15 at 8 AM ET with in person and virtual attendance options: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registrati...
- Tomorrow is the publication date for my book How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences comes out tomorrow!! microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book... @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- On March 17, 2026, join us as we discuss queer food access. This event is a collaboration between Right To Food's Indigenous Network and Queers at the Table contributors. To attend this free, virtual event, here is the zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-food...
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- Sharing our Work: Queer Food and Publishing Workshop (From Zine to Press) March 10 at 6 PM ET Free, HYBRID Event at SKOL gallery in Montréal Learn about different types of queer publishing, make zines, and see an exhibition! www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-ou... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social
- www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-ou... with SKOL gallery, Combos Press, and more @arsenalpulp.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
- And a February event on queer food and comics! www.eventbrite.com/e/comic-arts...
- Join us on January 6th! with Sinister Wisdom us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
- You can now pre-order my new book: How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences! It comes out January 2026!! microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book... @microcosm.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.
- “.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
- Queers at the Table was reviewed in @autostraddle.bsky.social by @ancillarytext.bsky.social !!! Thank you!! @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social www.autostraddle.com/what-does-qu...
- Thank you for this glowing review of Queers at the Table by Ivy Lerner Frank of the Culinary Historians of Canada! www.culinaryhistorians.ca/wordpress/di... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
